Madison’s Midwest Solar Power LLC is nearing completion of a solar energy project installment it designed for the Broadhead Senior Village. The solar installation is part of a larger project being managed by Front Door Development LLC for Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program (SWCAP). SWCAP’s goal with the project is to make the property less expensive to operate and to live in, in addition to being more sustainable.
Each resident will receive $388 in annual anticipated electricity savings once the system is turned on. The 24 residential units will see a total of $9,312 in annual savings. Jocelyn Borchardt, president of Front Door Development LLC, said that a total of $3,605 in annual anticipated common meter savings will also be realized.
Each unit system consists of eight solar panels and micro inverters, according to Barrett Lione-Seaton from Midwest Solar Power. The Solar for Good Grant, funded by the Couillard Solar Foundation and administered by Renew Wisconsin, supplied 131 of the 262 panels required for the Midwest Solar Power solar installation.
Midwest Solar Power provided all design, installation, permitting, and administrative work for the solar installation, which is anticipated to have a first year energy production of 113,000 kilowatt hours. That translates to 80 metric tons of CO2 avoided, or the equivalent of 89,700 pounds of coal burned, according to an EPA calculator.
