March Air Force Base which traces its roots to Riverside County to 1917 and for decades was part of the Air Force's Strategic Air Command. It remains the largest reserve base in the U.S. and with more than 8,000 civilian and military employees. It has a summer electric bill that can run as high as $500,000 to $600,000 per month.
The historic base recently took center stage as the largest Air Force installation to utilize a state-of-the-art solar panel grid. The 452nd Civil Engineer Squadron, March Air Reserve Base, Calif., completed the photo voltaic array project and began using it May 17, 2007. They broke ground for the project in June 2006. The solar panels have a capacity of 413.38 kilowatt-hours, sit atop two carports on the base and have a price tag of $4,576,753, which should be recovered in 10 years. It has already earned about 1.5 Million in rebates.
Way to go up Air Force!
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