Solar Powered Savings

The Cummings Center solar crew persevered through blustery snow squalls, and cold, wet conditions to install a new 1,738-panel, 530-KW solar array (more than an acre) atop Cummings Center's "Northwest Garage." The system is expected to produce 575,702 kWh annually, enough to power approximately 48 million iPods for a year and cut down on energy costs to power common area lighting! 

Governor Electrifies Solar Array

Governor Deval Patrick cut the ribbon for Cummings Center’s second major solar installation, the 366KW solar array at West Garage. Click here to experience Governor Patrick's rousing endorsement of both green power and the robust life sciences community developing at Cummings Center in Beverly, Massachusetts. 

Here Comes the Sun!

Cummings Properties completed the first phase of a major 200 kW photovoltaic solar panel installation at TradeCenter 128 in Woburn. Following approval by local authorities, Cummings employees assembled and installed the 518 - 3' x 5' solar panels in a 36-hour period.

The solar panel array will produce more than 107,000 kilowatts of very green power per year. To view a real time graph of the power generated by the panels, click here.

Partially funded by a grant by the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust, the panel array will generate upwards of 10 percent of the common area lighting and HVAC systems at 300 TradeCenter. It is among the largest solar installations to date in Massachusetts.

The system consists of 518 Canadian Solar panels, a 95 kW Solectria Inverter, and Unirac support racks supplied by Munro Distributing of Fall River, Massachusetts.