Grand Junction Water Treatment Plant to Receive New Solar Panels

Grand Junction Water Treatment Plant to Receive New Solar Panels The Grand Junction City Council has approved the purchase of solar panels for the city's water treatment plant. Officials say after looking over 11 applicants for the project, they have decided to go with Sunsense Solar out of Carbondale. The company has built solar panels for several other locations in the city including the Two Rivers Convention Center and the Visitor and Convention Bureau. "For the water treatment plant we'll save roughly $10,000 a year in a $5 million water enterprise fund ... every dollar, even every penny that we save is one that we don't have to give to Xcel Energy that we can use for something else, or keep our rates just a little lower," said Terry Franklin, utilities and streets manager of Grand Junction. The solar panels would add 55 kilowatts (kW) to the current plant, which runs on a 100-kW system.