New Dauphin County Solar Farm

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Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

October 4, 2011 | 1:37 PM

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We’ll have more on Governor Corbett’s new impact fee later today. But meantime, in other environmental news, there’s a new solar farm in Dauphin County.

The Dauphin County commissioners Monday unveiled the county’s new 1-megawatt solar farm.
The farm, one of the largest municipal-owned solar-generation fields in Pennsylvania, is on 5 acres of municipal-owned land in Middle Paxton and West Hanover townships.
It boasts 4,340 solar panels that will produce approximately 1,400,000 kilowatts of electricity per year, enough to offset 18 percent to 20 percent of the power usage at the county’s facilities.

The story comes from the Patriot-News. We’ll have more on the state of green energy in Pennsylvania, later this week on the StateImpact website.