By reducing the amount of fossil fuel generated electricity
needed by Fala, over the next 25 years Long Island will avoid:
Fala
Fala has over 700 employees at three state-of-the-art facilities on
Long Island comprising over 300,000 square feet of space. Annually,
Fala consumes about 10,800 - megawatt hours of electricity. The 1.01
MW solar system will produce about 1,065-megawatt hours of
electricity annually, which the company will use in its daily
operation.
LIPA
For its part, LIPA stands to gain a significant amount of first-hand
data regarding the large-scale application of renewable energy
technologies in a high technology setting. At the same time, the
joint solar project will allow LIPA, which serves some 1.1 million
electric consumers in Nassau and Suffolk counties and the Rockaway
Peninsula in Queens, to evaluate the effectiveness of photovoltaics
as a resource to meet Long Island's ever-growing demand for
electricity.
Fala, long recognized as a pioneer in the use of advanced
technologies for its direct mail business, decided to install
the $6.1 million solar system with LIPA agreeing to provide a
one-time $4.1 million research grant to help underwrite the
capital cost of the system.
Clean Energy Initiative
