Solar Panel Installation Tour Photos

The solar panels provide a one megawatt photovoltaic system springing up on a hillside to the northeast of the detention facility — will help power the county’s Calle Real campus, which contains the Sheriff’s Department and jail, as well as several other departments, like Public Health, Mental Health, Agricultural Commissioner, and County Elections. The panels will provide about one-third of the power the campus needs, according to energy manager Roy Hapeman, and the complex uses roughly 20 percent of all the electricity consumed by county operations.