MARQUETTE, MI-- The Marquette Board of Light and Power is now generating electricity from solar panels.
Officials say the 480-panel Solar Garden adjacent to the new Marquette Energy Center began producing power Tuesday. They say it’s the first commercial solar project in the U.P. that lets customers participate in solar power without having to install panels on their own property.
MBLP customers have purchased 322 panels in the garden. They will receive a credit of $.063 cents per kilowatt hour on their November bills for power generated by the panels. Officials estimate each panel will produce an average of 382 kilowatt hours annually, resulting in just over $24 in solar credits per panel.
