Moloka’i School Goes Photovoltaic By Advertiser Staff

July 25, 2009 – Honolulu Advertiser

A 22-kilowatt photovoltaic system has been installed at the Kualapu’u school on Moloka’i to help cut the facility’s electricity bills.

ProVision Solar Inc., which designed and installed the system, said it should produce about 20 percent of the school’s daily power needs and can be expanded to cover more than half of Kualapu’u’s needs.

Marco Mangelsdorf, ProVision president, said a number of businesses on Moloka’i as well as numerous homeowners have installed photovoltaic systems to escape the island’s high electricity costs. He said Kualapu’u’s installation is the largest of any public school in Hawai’i.