Bowling Green School Goes Solar!

Article on the Courier Journal website entitled "Solar panels go up at Ky. elementary school" tells of how Richardsville Elementary School of Bowling Green, Kentucky is becoming a "net-zero" building. They have begun installing 2,700 photovoltaic panels as part of a $2.4 million project. These panels will provide electricity to the school and if there is a surplus back to the power grid to be used for needs in the surrounding area. Other energy saving measures are heavy insulation used in the building and a geothermal cooling/heating system.

The project is being done by Morton Solar and Wind and Advanced Electrical Systems. It is estimated on a sunny day the panels can produce 2.5 megawatts of electricity an hour or enough to power 50 homes. If that quote is right the average home uses 50 kilowatt (I am guessing a day)?