UTEP's first solar installation on campus: a 185 kW system combining a rooftop array on the Student Recreation Center with a parking canopy at the Facilities Services Building. The university funded it through a $1 million Distributed Renewable Energy Technology grant from the Texas State Energy Conservation Office, matched with its own Green Fund.
We were selected as the local installation partner alongside McCormick Architecture and McArch Construction, coordinating with more than half a dozen contractors and university departments against a grant deadline. The rooftop portion had a hard window of two days to set every panel. We made it, on budget.
The university's Director of Energy Initiatives described the project as finished in "record time," and said the result would lead UTEP to expand its renewable portfolio on campus. It did — we have since delivered the UTEP Athletic Center array and a second campus carport system.
Production and savings figures are from a SunPower-published case study prepared by Border Solar.
