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nine city/county facilities through a series of recent
power purchase agreements.
As part of those agreements, the roofs, parking lots
or yards of those buildings are leased to private solar
companies and power generated is purchased back
from those companies at an agreed-to rate, with the
assumption that solar power will be less expensive
than traditional sources in the future and that ulti-
mately the amount of power purchased will be enough
to fully service the buildings.
Broomfield’s current solar capacity is up to 900 kilo-
watts, she said, and the energy is now being used to
fully power small pump stations, while meeting 5 to 10
percent of the overall need at the buildings.
Going forward, Allen expects her agendas to remain
full of transportation-centric congestion issues, in ad-
dition to more new facilities once work being doing for
health and human services is complete.
“It’s becoming an issue, now that we’re growing and
services are growing,” she said. “We have several facil-
ities on deck. I think it’s easy to see that that’s what’s
going to remain important to us.”
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