Ypsilanti City Hall solar panels flip switch on electricity

Thursday, March 25, 2010 | Source: Concentrate

A small group of people are making a bigger and bigger impact on alternative energy in Ypsilanti, one solar panel at a time.

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The meters are spinning in the right direction at Ypsilanti's City Hall, now that the new solar panels on the south side of the building are generating electricity. Local officials and volunteers who made the project happen flipped the switch last weekend.

That not only turned on the 12 solar panels that adorn the downtown building, but concluded an ambitious grass roots project, Solar Ypsi, that continues to spread its roots throughout Ypsilanti.

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