Guadalupe’s First Commercial Solar Project

Arizona Community Adopts the Planets Most Efficient Solar Panels Designed for the Arizona Heat.

Itom A’e means “our mother” in the Yaqui Language and is Guadalupe’s first and only Low Income Housing Tax Credit senior community with 290 solar panels totaling 66,700 watts. Owned by The Englewood Group, the units are designed for residents with mobility, hearing, and visual impairments. The Area Agency on Aging & The Arizona Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, are designated service providers of the complex which took four years to complete.

The Englewood Group believes solar PV systems need to be utilized more especially in Arizona where we have 330 plus days of sunshine each year. Not only does it help us all move away from independence on fossil fuels and carbon emissions, but it simply makes economic sense. They believe so much in the power of PV, that they recently signed a contract with Perfect Power Solar to install a second phase system on Itom A’e its newest senior housing community.

The solar PV system they chose is a major component of the 50,000 square foot building encompassing a 1.47 acre site.  Once all of this work is done, the Association expects to eliminate all of the buildings common area electric energy costs.  According to Dave Brady, Director of Sales for Perfect Power Solar, “It’s all about the kWh.  The system for Itom A’e system is designed to out perform other PV systems by as much as 25%.”

Published on behalf of Perfect Power Solar
Multiple award winning Perfect Power Solar has been in the solar business for thirteen years and has installed hundreds of solar PV systems for commercial and residential customers. Locally owned and operated, the company’s main focus is on Arizona and designing solar systems for our unique desert climate using the planets most efficient solar panels.  The company’s web site is www.perfectpowersolar.com.                       

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