{"id":45224,"date":"2021-08-14T02:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T02:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-taps-into-solar-for-public-buildings\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:23:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:23:47","slug":"dolores-taps-into-solar-for-public-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-taps-into-solar-for-public-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolores taps into solar for public buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2e9a9852-802b-5ae7-a0ee-963d3ceb0d3e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"720\" height=\"415\" alt=\"Solar panels have been installed on Dolores Town Hall. An electric car charging station was also installed. There is no cost to charge. (Courtesy Shaw Solar)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Solar panels have been installed on Dolores Town Hall. An electric car charging station was also installed. There is no cost to charge. (Courtesy Shaw Solar)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Dolores government buildings are now being powered by the sun.<\/p>\n<p>Panels were recently installed on Dolores Town Hall, public works shop and wastewater facility.<\/p>\n<p>The panels provide a total of 126 kilowatts of power. The panels were installed by Shaw Solar, which leases them to the town.<\/p>\n<p>Solar power is sold to the town at a fixed rate over the 25 years, representing an energy savings of about 3% per year. The panels are warrantied for 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>During the 25-year lease, the solar arrays would generate estimated energy savings of $140,000 for the sewer plant, $78,000 for the public works shop and $17,000 for Town Hall.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=6714a3b4-e927-5fc8-8db8-34be86406457&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"720\" height=\"471\" alt=\"Solar panels have been installed to help power the waste water treatment plant in Dolores. (Courtesy Shaw Solar)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Solar panels have been installed to help power the waste water treatment plant in Dolores. (Courtesy Shaw Solar)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The buildings with the solar panels will be tied into Empire Electric service grid, and continue to have reliable power.<\/p>\n<p>The town received a grant from the Department of Local Affairs to pay for 75% of the system cost.<\/p>\n<p>The town of Dolores has also installed a Level II Electric Vehicle charging station at Dolores Town Hall, 420 Central Ave. The town is offering the service free of charge.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b9692aa9-f5b8-569d-8bb9-0b3f56b7a46e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"720\" height=\"424\" alt=\"The town of Dolores has installed a public electric car charger in front of Town Hall. The charging station is free. (Courtesy photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The town of Dolores has installed a public electric car charger in front of Town Hall. The charging station is free. (Courtesy photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric car charger also installed at Town Hall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[44,28,29,1425],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-45224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dolores","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-solar-energy"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86406,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45224\/revisions\/86406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45224"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=45224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}