Philadelphia may soon join clean energy corporate sponsors such as Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Amazon.com Inc. by agreeing to a 20-year contract to buy solar power for its city office buildings.
If the proposed deal goes through, 22 percent of electricity for the city’s government buildings would come from a 700-acre, 70-megawatt solar photovoltaic farm to be constructed in Adams County, a facility seven times larger than any currently in Pennsylvania.
The ordinance introduced by the City Council on Nov. 1 would allow Philadelphia to join a long-term power purchase agreement with the Philadelphia Energy Authority, an independent municipal ...
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