When the solar panels are generating excess energy, the power flows back into the city’s main power grid at a savings for Vegas PBS, Axtell said.
Vegas PBS is a self-funded service that is sponsored by the district. Its new facility is home to the district’s Virtual High School, which offers online high school courses.
Axtell looks at school rooftops as an energy asset, much like a river or a ray of sunshine. Because many district schools share the same design, there would be economies of scale in planting solar farms on school rooftops across the Las Vegas Valley.
“You have a single property owner that has large expanses of flat roofs, that all have the same exact designs because you have cookie-cutter schools. It really allows for the efficiency in the planning and the installation of solar farms,” Axtell said.
“You do it for one high school, there’s probably 10 others that have the same footprint. So you don’t have the same expense of engineering.”
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