sunpower和Exelon联合使过去的社区灾难变为现在巨大的绿色太阳能电站

Exelon已经完成了6000万美元的太阳能电池板的项目。该项目由艾塞龙公司拥有，sunpower负责建设。伴随着这个最大的太阳能发电厂的完成，人们开始庆祝从过去污染环境脱身的新生活 崭新的太阳能发电厂安装有全部32292个经过检测的太阳能面板，目前最后的安装工作也已经完成。当地的园区委员会秘书Dannese Flennoy 说，太阳能发电厂已经使得整个社区发生了巨大的变化，居民团体和政治家共同促进了太阳能发电厂的成果。

过去这个地区是国际收割公司的资产，是一个危害健康和其他社区旧轮胎等杂物的垃圾堆积场，但现在成为太阳能电厂。36岁的联合咨询委员会顾问约翰说这里应该有对住在这里居民直接有益，将公用事业和绿色结合起来。同样36岁的哈也说希望能够看到一户或两户居民有屋顶太阳能，并作为试用项目计划的一部分。他同样建议并倾向于将其他空旷的空间也升级。

人们希望整个社区都是绿色的。

Onetime eyesore now giant solar station

Cost: $60 million
1）7 full-time employees of site operator SunPower, a solar company based in San Jose, Calif.
2）Site owner: Exelon, the parent company of ComEd.

As Exelon celebrated completion of the nation's largest urban solar-power plant, the next-door neighbors in West Pullman celebrated a new life for a former polluted industrial site.

The plant began operating in December, with all 32,292 panels tested and in service in March, and final site work just completed.

"The solar plant has upgraded this community," said Dannese Flennoy, secretary for the Victory Heights-Maple Park Community Advisory Council, the neighborhood group that worked with politicians and Exelon to see the solar plant to fruition.

The former International Harvester property -- now the solar plant -- had become an eyesore, a health hazard and a dumping ground for other communities' old tires and other debris.

"There should be some direct benefit to the people in this community, both in our utility bills and in going green," said John Chenier, a 36-year resident and co-chairman of the advisory council.

R.C. Hardy Jr., also a 36-year resident, said the neighborhood hopes to see one or two homes outfitted with a rooftop solar panel as part of a pilot program, and intends to work to upgrade other vacant sites.

"We want to get the whole community to go green," Hardy said.