{"id":6655,"date":"2017-05-04T18:48:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T18:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/05\/04\/furman-turns-on-solar-array\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:56:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:56:51","slug":"furman-turns-on-solar-array","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-turns-on-solar-array\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman turns on solar array"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Furman University has flipped the switch on the largest solar project on a South Carolina university campus, as the university takes another step toward a carbon-neutral future,&#8221; writes Nathaniel Cary of <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/environment\/2017\/05\/03\/furman-turns-solar-array\/101251806\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0The $1.7 million solar farm is located on six acres of university-owned land between Old Buncombe Road and Poinsett Highway and will supply enough energy to power about 5 percent of Furman&#8217;s energy needs. The farm also presents an opportunity for Furman students. Says\u00a0Furman President Elizabeth Davis, &#8220;In addition to increasing the university\u2019s solar power production and reducing our energy costs, the new solar facility will serve as a laboratory for Furman students pursuing careers in sustainability.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Furman University has flipped the switch on the largest solar project on a South Carolina university campus, as the university takes another step toward a carbon-neutral future,&#8221; writes Nathaniel Cary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":6656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17,37,6,18,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-centers-and-institutes","category-earth-environmental-and-sustainability-sciences","category-in-the-news","category-shi-institute-for-sustainable-communities","category-the-furman-advantage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}