Aquaplex Solar Array Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony

AS Prsident Tyler Boden cuts the ribbon at the solar array ceremony

e3 execs Erin, Holly, Josh and Tara join AS execs to pose with the $286,166 rebate check

e3ers were honored to join SDSU's Associated Students (AS), AS Green Love, Sullivan Power and California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) to celebrate the new solar panel installation at last Wednesday, Dec. 2 at the Aquaplex.

There was a ribbon-cutting ceremony as well as a $286,166 rebate check issued to Associated Students by CCSE for the California Solar Initiative program. Guest speakers included Stephen L. Weber (SDSU president, Tyler Boden (AS president), Grant Mack (AS Green Love commissioner), Christine Kehoe (senator), Kevin Faulconer (former AS president and District 2 city council member), Marti Emerald (District 7 city councilmember) and Daniel Sullivan (founder and president of Sullivan Solar Power).


SDSU’s Aquaplex solar array will generate enough solar power to reduce the emission of 299,940 pounds of CO2 from the atmosphere each year and will generate roughly 241,887 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year. The solar system which consists of three separate ground-mounted arrays, each with 280 photovoltaic panels, will save AS more than $35,000 a year in electricity costs, according to Grant Mack, AS Green Love commissioner.

The funding for the project was paid by a fee increase that the student body imposed upon themselves in spring 2008. The event will unite local education, business and political sectors around renewable energy generation in higher education.