Scenic Hill Solar will build 4.8-MW tracker solar project to power Arkansas bank

• Bank OZK got approval from the Arkansas Public Service Commission (APSC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to build a solar energy plant that is anticipated to have a producing capability of 4.8-MWdc.

The APSC approval instate Bank OZK's $6 million lasting energy initiative to generate enough renewable resource to power its lately completed corporate headquarters in Little Rock and approximately 40 more offices in Arkansas. Bank OZK will quickly settle the purchase of the website for the solar power plant and also begin building and construction.

" This is the largest financial investment in renewable resource by an Arkansas-based financial solutions company," claimed Tim Hicks, chief credit history and also management policeman at Bank OZK. "We delight in to play a leading role investing in sustainable and also clean energy, which will offer steady electric power at a foreseeable rate well right into the near future."

Scenic Hill Solar, of North Little Rock, will certainly develop and also look after the building of the solar power plant for the bank, which will certainly consist of over 11,000 solar panels on a single-axis tracking system. Over the course of a year, the facility is expected to create more than 8.1 million kWh of power, enough to supply the electricity equivalent for over 1,000 homes for 12 months.

" The solar plant shows our solid dedication to environmental duty," Hicks claimed. "We anticipate to minimize our carbon footprint by about 160,000 lots of carbon dioxide over the next three decades."