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The University of Pennsylvania is more than just another college. A member of the vaunted Ivy League, it also has an extensive healthcare component. Together, its educational and healthcare facilities consume an enormous amount of electricity — around 300 MW, or about a third of what an average size nuclear power plant produces. The only other Ivy League school that has made a major commitment to solar power is Columbia, which gets 100% of its electricity from renewable sources.
The solar electricity is generated at two large solar farms — Great Cove I and Great Cove II — located on 1,600 acres in Fulton and Franklin counties in central Pennsylvania, about halfway between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Combined, they consist of 485,000 solar panels with a capacity of 220 MW. That makes…
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