Transparent Office Products of Pennsauken, NJ installs 150kw Solar PV System.
For the last years 36 sustainability has been at the core of business for Transparent Office Products, a Pennsauken, NJ based manufacturer of archive safe document protectors. Servicing clients like, The Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institute and Museums across the USA, keeping some of our nation’s most cherished historical possessions safe from harm and deterioration. Now the company takes that same approach to their own manufacturing facility and their environmental footprint.
In late May the company contracted Array Sunsystems, also of Pennsauken, to procure, design , and install a 150KW Solar PV system on the roof of their Haddonfield Rd headquarters. The parent company Gera- foliegn of Germany, has incorporated solar on its European facilities over the past decade, and is doing so in North America now as well. Transparent’s North American Operations Director Rick Brown had this to say about the project “ Being a German company, we had prior experience with solar and have been looking into this in New Jersey for a while now. We just needed to find the right company to work with, the benefits of doing the project are undeniable.”
As to why the company chose Array Sunsystems, Brown added “ We knew enough to know who was being honest, and Array was the only company that was. Add to that the fact that they are local and had jobs we could walk right on and inspect, and the decision was easy.”
The project will offset close to 80 percent of the electric bill at the plant. Once Federal tax incentives are considered, the return on investment for Transparent will be under 5 years. When asked about the solar market in NJ , its rapid growth, and future, Array Sunsystems President John Gottschall said “ Projects like this one at Transparent, are really the core of the solar future in NJ. We have so much talk about enormous solar farm projects and people trying to revise wetland and forest regulations for solar use. Those projects get debated forever, and always end up still on the conference room table. Every building in this state has a roof. Many are ideal for solar. For a NJ business the return on investment is usually under five years. What else could you ask for?”
When asked about his view of the ever changing New Jersey Solar Market , Gottschall responded” The incentives have worked. The technology has come down so far in price, just since we’ve been in business, that people are paying less now for solar than ever before. “
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