New Jersey utilities float solar panels on reservoir, powering water treatment plant
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New Jersey's Canoe Brook Water Treatment plant produces 14 millions gallons of drinking water a day. Each one of those gallons weighs seven pounds, so it is quickly apparent that a large amount of energy is needed to move water from a reservoir to the treatment plant and into the 84,000 homes and businesses that the New Jersey American Water Company serves in the area. NJR Clean Energy Ventures built a vast array of solar panels, linked them together, and placed them on the surface of the wate...
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