Dulles International Airport in Virginia is a step closer to generating its own solar energy on airport grounds.
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority wants to move forward with its project with Dominion Energy to convert a large area of unused land at the airport to collect and store solar energy.
The project — officially called the Solar + Storage Project — would give Dominion the ability to install thousands of solar panels in 835 acres of grounds of Dulles for the next 37 years.
Batteries would store the solar energy, and in the Airports Authority’s latest report, it said that Dominion will build, operate and maintain a 2 megawatt solar carport and provide the Airports Authority electric buses, light-duty electric vehicles and the needed charging infrastructure for the vehicles.
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