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Jon Vanderwall of RBI Solar installs panels at SunShare’s solar garden on property owned by Good Shepherd United Methodist Church in south Colorado Springs in September 2012. Getting your player ready...
Manitou Springs has agreed to buy all of the electricity for city-owned facilities from a solar array that SunShare will build near Security, becoming what the company says is the first city in the nation powered by a so-called “solar garden.”
Manitou Springs will pay 5.6 cents per kilowatt hour and use about 25 percent of the 2 megawatts of power the array will generate, said David Grossman, a spokesman for Colorado Springs Utilities, which will distribute the power to Manitou.
Residential and commercial customers in Manitou also can sign up to get their power through the solar garden.
The Manitou Springs City Council unanimously approved the agreement with Colorado Springs-based SunShare on April 15.
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