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Over 44,000 pounds of smog-producing nitrogen oxide emissions

5,400 pounds of particulate emissions

This graph helps explain why, in the first year of operation, the school is expected to save around $20,000, and why savings are expected to increase each year.

"...we are doing this project in a way that any school district in the State of Wisconsin can... We want to be a model that other school districts can learn from.”

-- Peter Sobol, Chair, Monona Grove’s Ad Hoc Sustainability Committee

2.8 pounds of mercury emissions

According to the Monona Grove School District, these solar panels will offset the burning of more than 16,000 tons of coal in their 30-year lifespan, reducing harmful air emissions from coal burning: 01 02 03 04

31,000 tons of carbon dioxide

The school has a "performance guarantee": to mitigate risk - a minimum level of savings is guaranteed, regardless of unanticipated conditions

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