McAra Solar - One Year Later

One year ago McAra Printing joined the ranks of Alberta’s electrical generating community by activating an 11kilowatt rooftop solar installation on Earth Day 2011. Since going online, McAra’s south-facing rooftop installation of 48 photovoltaic solar modules has taken advantage of an uninterrupted stream of sunlight during Calgary’s abundance of clear days during the past year to produce more than 17megawatt hours of electricity. To put things in perspective, 17mwh is enough electricity to power 600 homes or a football stadium for one day! By providing green electricity to the grid, McAra Printing has offset 11.7 tons of Carbon – the equivalent offset of more than an acre of trees.

Click on the above image for current McAra Solar Statistics.