Ski Resort Installing Solar Array

The project is expected to produce more than 280,000 kilowatt hours annually

A western Maine ski resort is installing an 803-panel solar array it says should eventually provide 70 percent of the resort's annual electricity needs.

Jamie Schectman, the marketing director of Mt. Abram ski area in Greenwood, says the project is expected to produce more than 280,000 kilowatt hours annually.

Part of the project will be paid with up to $235,000 from a 25 percent matching grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Energy for America Program.

The Sun Journal reports that the total cost of the project is expected to be less than $1 million.

Mt. Abram co-owner Matt Hancock said the solar project "continues the advancement of our clean energy game plan - utilizing abundant, local and readily available resources wherever and whenever possible."

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