Oregon Department of Transportation to turn Interstate 5 solar powered

The Oregon Department of Transportation recently received a nodding-headed approval from the Clackamas County for a massive renewable energy generation system that will lie alongside the northbound Interstate 5 highway just south of Wilsonville. The project, compromising of a solar array that will generate a whopping 1.9 million kilowatt-hours of renewable energy each year will juice up resting facilities northbound as well as southbound and power the lighting on the highway too, all with renewable energy from the sun.

This project will be the Department’s second solar highway project with the solar panels covering an area of 6.5 acres at the 27-acre rest area property kept aside for farm use.
[Oregonlive]