{"id":137177,"date":"2022-03-20T21:04:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T04:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/sonoma-county-airport-launches-solar-power-systems"},"modified":"2022-03-20T21:04:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T04:04:58","slug":"sonoma-county-airport-launches-solar-power-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/sonoma-county-airport-launches-solar-power-systems","title":{"rendered":"Sonoma County Airport Launches Solar Power Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sonoma-county-airport-launches-solar-power-systems.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport had two solar power systems <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northbaybusinessjournal.com\/article\/news\/sonoma-county-airport-reaches-for-the-sun-tapping-into-new-solar-power-pro\/\">installed onsite<\/a> and made them live in February. Over the course of their electricity-generating life spans, they will offset thousands of tons of CO2 emissions and potentially save millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Sonoma County has been hit particularly hard by wildfires in the last several years. These natural disasters occur with some regularity on their own, but many believe the latest ones <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressdemocrat.com\/article\/news\/alarming-climate-change-report-resonates-on-parched-fire-scarred-north-coa\/\">are connected<\/a> to the effects of climate change. The county has been experiencing higher temperatures and droughts as well. As a result of these challenges, Sonoma County\u2019s government set a goal for the county to be carbon neutral <a href=\"https:\/\/sonomacounty.ca.gov\/Board-of-Supervisors\/Strategic-Plan\/Climate-Action-and-Resiliency\/\">by 2030<\/a>. The airport solar power installations fit within the carbon-free plan. (The California state government has a goal for California to be operating on clean, carbon-free electricity <a href=\"https:\/\/sonomacleanpower.org\/toueveryday\">by 2045<\/a>.) <\/p>\n<p>Jon Stout, the Sonoma Airport Manager, and Rachel McLaughlin, ForeFront Power\u2019s Vice President of Sales &amp; Marketing, provided some insights to <i>CleanTechnica<\/i> about the new solar power systems. (The last three answers are from ForeFront.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport had two solar power systems installed onsite and made them live in February. Over the course of their electricity-generating life spans, they will offset thousands of tons of CO2 emissions and potentially save millions of dollars. Sonoma County has been hit particularly hard by wildfires in the last [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1490,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-government","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}