Prairiewoods receives state grant

Prairiewoods receives state grant

Prairiewoods received word in late 2009 that we have been awarded a $65,450 grant from the Iowa Office of Energy Independence to install solar panels. These panels will generate 8,750 killowats of electricity to Prairiewoods’ main center and will complete the second phase of a project started in the summer of 2009. In July 2009, (see picture) Prairiewoods installed a bank of 40 solar modules capable of generating 7,000 killowats of electricity to our center building. The State Energy Program monies will be used to install 50 more solar modules ! When completed (sometime in 2010) our 90 solar modules will have an energy capacity of 15,750 watts.