via Denver Business Journal
Xanterra Parks & Resorts will install a solar power plant in the sunniest place in the United States -- Death Valley.
The Greenwood Village company said Monday operates lodges, restaurants and concessions in national and state parks, and has made its mission to become an environmental leader in the hospitality industry.
Temperatures in Death Valley reach as high as 130 degrees in the summer, and there's seldom any rainfall there, so what better place for a solar power plant than Death Valley National Park?
The 1 megawatt plant will generate enough electricity to supply more than a third of Xanterra's operations there, which includes the Furnace Creek Inn and employee housing.
Xanterra will own the plant and the energy it produces. The plant itself will be built by SPG Solar Inc. of California and should be operational by March 2008.
Xanterra estimates that over the next 30 years, Xanterra's solar system will eliminate the emission of more than 284,000 tons of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide, all of which contribute to global warming and acid rain. Simply put, that's equal to planting more than 54,200 trees and taking more than 3,700 cars off California highways.
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