Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a small city near Barcelona, Spain, is using space atop mausoleums to generate solar power. The system has 462 PV panels and its output power is supplied to the local energy grid. This output can serve the annual energy demand of 60 homes.
Santa Coloma has a population of 124,000 living in four square kilometers (1.5 square miles) making the cemetery the only open space capable of generating solar energy.
The system's installation cost was 720,000 euros ($900,000) and it'll keep about 62 tons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere annually. 
The town hopes to install more panels to triple the output of the project. The town has 3 other solar systems operating but this one is by far the biggest.
Source: AP
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
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