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School District Soaks Up Cost-Cutting Solar Energy
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Preparations are being made on the El Portal Middle School campus for installation of a solar panel/shade structure that will cover a portion of the parking lot at the campus on First Street. All Escalon Unified School District campuses are having solar arrays put in. - photo by Marg Jackson/The Times
Crews have been busy and unusual looking structures have been going up on campuses throughout the Escalon Unified School District over the past several weeks. In some instances, the structures are showing up in parking lots, in other cases, in corners of land previously used as playing fields. But the structures, though difficult to discern in the earliest stages, will bring in plenty of savings to the school district through the use of solar energy.