CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A large solar project that will help power a parking building at Charleston’s Yeager Airport is nearing completion.
The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports construction should be concluded on the 1,800-module project by Wednesday. Then it will take a couple of weeks to wire up. An opening ceremony is scheduled for Sept. 18.
The $4 million project is 90% funded by the Federal Aviation Administration and 10% funded by the state.
Yeager Airport Director Terry Sayre says a second array is being planned for the other parking building and the rental car and maintenance structures.
Sayre says they eventually want to power the whole airport with off-grid sources. Yeager Airport receives royalties from two gas wells on airport property. It is entitled to a volume of free gas from them once a pipe can be connected.
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Information from: The Charleston Gazette-Mail, http://wvgazettemail.com.
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