{"id":1397,"date":"2013-06-27T18:32:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T22:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/06\/27\/the-limits-of-solar-energy\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:50:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:50:56","slug":"the-limits-of-solar-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-limits-of-solar-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing the boundaries of solar energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7118\" style=\"width: 272px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/solar-panel-state.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7118\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7118 lazyload\" title=\"solar-panel-state\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/solar-panel-state.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"187\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 262px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 262\/187;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A solar panel on Furman University campus helps heat and light campus facilities. (SAMMY FRETWELL \u2014 sfretwell@thestate.com)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman began installing energy-producing solar panels on its campus more than a decade ago. But the university\u2019s solar energy push has hit a wall, reaching a state limit that prevents it from installing more solar to heat and light campus buildings. <em>The State<\/em> newspaper in Columbia reported on how Furman, which is well-known for its green campus initiatives, is one of the first\u2014and most visible\u2014examples of how the state&#8217;s limit on sun power stands to affect solar energy expansion across South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2013\/06\/27\/2836648\/states-solar-power-policy-thwarts.html\">Read the article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman began installing energy-producing solar panels on its campus more than a decade ago. But the university\u2019s solar energy push has hit a wall, reaching a state limit that prevents it from installing more solar to heat and light campus buildings.\u00a0<em>The State<\/em> newspaper in Columbia reported on how Furman, which is well-known for its green campus initiatives, is one of the first\u2014and most visible\u2014examples of how the state&#8217;s limit on sun power stands to affect solar energy expansion across South Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers-and-institutes","category-in-the-news","category-shi-institute-for-sustainable-communities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}