By Promise Yee
The Coast News Group
OCEANSIDE — Solar panels will be added to five city sites, and rack up $8 million in savings over 25 years.
City Council approved a power purchase agreement with PFMG Solar LLC, of Huntington Beach, in early August. Solar panels will be installed at police headquarters, Fire Station 7, the city operations center, Melba Bishop Recreation Center and EL Corazon Senior Center.
The locations were selected for phase I of a solar energy project that the city hopes to expand.
“It’s something new for us,” John McKelvey, management analyst for Oceanside Water Utilities Department and project manager, said. “If we can prove it can be done, there are a lot more possibilities.”
Large parking lot shade structures will be built at the five sites to hold the solar equipment on top. The police station will also have solar panels on the building’s roof.
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