Mississippi State University

TVA’s second solar power array in Mississippi is located on the campus of Mississippi State University in Starkville. The solar photovoltaic (PV) system is built as a canopy to cover a sidewalk between the new Landscape Architecture Building and the Ammerman-Hearnsberger Pilot Food Processing Lab. Visit the MSU Landscape Architecture Web site to see how PV and other sustainable technologies have been incorporated into the design of the facilities and integrated into the curriculum.

The array has 104 PV modules, which are made of a light-sensitive material sandwiched between two plates of glass. The entire system can produce about 26,300 kilowatt-hours of electricity a year; that’s equal to 175 blocks of electricity for Green Power Switch customers. The energy generated at the site goes into the distribution network of the Starkville Electric System, then to the TVA power grid. Starkville Electric System is the local distributor that offers Green Power Switch to its customers.

The graph below represents the amount of electrical power generated at the Mississippi State University site on July 3, 2008. To view or download the raw data used to create this graph, click here.