Councillors approved spending 1.2 million dollars on two Feed-In Tariff rooftop solar panel projects.
OXFORD COUNTY -- County council approved installing a pair of new rooftop solar panel projects.
Director of public works Rob Walton says the $1.2 million dollar cost will come out of the county's landfill reserves. "There's a payback on these in the area of 9 to 10 years of payback of the investment. What funds that is that since we're rooftop solar it's approximately 39 cents a kilowatt we're being paid for the power."
The solar power generators will be installed at the Bio-Solids Facility at the Salford Landfill and the Water Facility at George Johnson Boulevard, in Ingersoll.
"These buildings that we have are definitely good candidates for this. The Bio-Solids one at the landfill actually, we can put a lot more panels on there so the idea when we set this up, the design will be to allow that in the future if we have a good successful installation there we will be able to actually extend that one out quite a bit."
The county is also installing four micro-FIT solar generators.
Walton says the county anticipates provincial approval of these two projects by the end of July.

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