Solar Moves Ahead Despite Slow Economies

clipped from www.worldofrenewables.com Communications, media and automotive services company, Cox Enterprises, has completed a 100 kilowatt (kW) photovoltaic (PV) solar system at Cox's Manheim DRIVE facility in Stockbridge, Georgia. The Manheim DRIVE Center is the first-of-its-kind innovation center in the vehicle remarketing industry. The Center hosts conferences, symposiums, roundtables and management retreats, as well as live auctions that are held in the 180-seat bidding theater. Since its opening in 2004, more than 20,000 guests from around the world have visited DRIVE. Power from the system will be fed into the Georgia Power grid and is the largest solar array wired into the utility company’s power lines. Cox also has photovoltaic power systems and solar thermal energy systems in facilities such as auction houses and automotive detailing shops in Bordentown, New Jersey; Phoenix, Arizona and Rancho Santa Margarita, California.