Harvard building to be in a new avatar

Harvard University, globally renowned educational institution (that doesn’t need any introduction) is going to be in a new avatar soon. It has been learnt that the revered university is planning to install solar panels on a historic building with help from a state-funded solar rebate program.

As indicated by a Boston Globe report, the university contrives to establish a 500 kilowatt solar roof array on the Arsenal on the Charles complex. The building (so they say) dates back to 1816 and was once used to manufacture munitions for the Navy.

It has also been informed by Globe that the plan necessitates solar panels that will not go through the roof or be visible from the street because of the historic nature of the building. The project received a $1.08 million grant from the Commonwealth Solar program, which was created by the state of Massachusetts to encourage more photovoltaic power. What’s more, the array will provide for about 7.3 percent of the building’s energy needs and will occupy the space of almost two football fields, sufficient to power about 33 average homes.

Harvard University is a private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is a member of the Ivy League. It was founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature and it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the realm of United States. It is also the first and oldest corporation in North America.

Harvard today has nine faculties. These include, Faculty of Arts and Sciences and its sub-faculty, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Faculty of Medicine, including the Medical School (1782) and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (1867), Harvard Divinity School (1816), Harvard Law School (1817), Harvard Business School (1908), Graduate School of Design (1914), Graduate School of Education (1920), School of Public Health (1922) and others .