October 29th, 2024 by WCBC Radio

The campus of Allegany College of Maryland may start to take on a different look as construction of a microgrid for the campus begins to take shape.  The microgrid will help to facilitate a new, clean-energy ecosystem that will also lead to a suite of certifications, courses, and degree programs at the college.  Solar panels across the campus will be part of the microgrid, according to ACM Spokesperson Kristin Kehrwald…

“We will have ground-mounted, most likely, solar panels. We may have some roof-mounted solar panels. There’s also the idea that we may have something that are like parking canopies that are solar panels as well so those can be – they basically take your current parking lot and retrofit it.”