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The Monona Grove School District Sustainability Committee is hosting a ribbon cutting and open house for the largest installed solar array on a K-12 building in Wisconsin.

This project will supply about half the building's electrical needs to provide environmental and financial benefits to the district (an estimated savings of $1.5 million over the life of the array).

In addition, the solar array will replace coal-fired electricity that currently powers our district. Over the 30 year lifetime of the array it will offset the burning of more than 16,000 tons of coal, reducing harmful coal-related air emissions, including:

over 44,000 pounds of smog-producing nitrogen oxide emissions

5,400 pounds of particulate emissions

2.8 pounds of mercury emissions

and 31,000 tons of carbon dioxide