{"id":6675,"date":"2018-10-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gridalt.wpenginepowered.com\/the-current\/unveiling-colorados-first-floating-solar-array\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T16:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:57:06","slug":"unveiling-colorados-first-floating-solar-array","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/live-grid-wp.pantheonsite.io\/es\/the-current\/unveiling-colorados-first-floating-solar-array\/","title":{"rendered":"Unveiling Colorado\u2019s First Floating Solar Array"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you think about the places investing in innovative renewable technologies, a tiny rural town in Northern Colorado is probably not the first place that comes to mind. But, that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happened in Walden, Colorado. Last month, GRID Colorado completed construction of Colorado\u2019s first floating solar array at the Town of Walden\u2019s drinking water treatment facility.<\/p>\n<p>The town is located near Colorado\u2019s northern Rocky Mountains. Only about 600 people call Walden home, 20 percent of whom are living below the poverty line. The floating system, where modules are mounted on pontoons and float atop the facility\u2019s lagoon, was a great solution for the town to go solar because they didn\u2019t own enough land to host an array. The 75 kW project, constructed using Jinko solar modules, will provide clean power to treat drinking water for the town as well as the local school district and Jackson County offices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s not many times Walden gets to lead the rest to state at anything,\u201d Walden Mayor Jim Dustin told <a href=\"https:\/\/denver.cbslocal.com\/2018\/10\/19\/walden-solar-power-floating-panels\/\">Denver\u2019s CBS4<\/a> at the solar array ribbon cutting event on October 19.<\/p>\n<p>GRID installed the project as a subcontractor for Johnson Controls and the energy performance contract, supported by the Colorado Energy Office (CEO), guarantees the town 2,500,000 kWh in energy savings over the next twenty years. That\u2019s an electricity savings of about $10,000 a year. Additionally, a grant from Colorado Department of Local Affairs to promote sustainable community development and resilience in rural communities covered half the project\u2019s costs.<br \/>For GRID Colorado, the project offered another opportunity to bring the benefits of solar power to an energy burdened community and take on the task of designing and constructing a unique solar array.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were really excited to design and install Colorado\u2019s first floating solar array for the Town of Walden. Not only did our staff take on this innovative project, but we provided job training throughout construction so our trainees could gain the skills necessary for a career in Colorado\u2019s growing clean energy economy,\u201d said Adrienne Dorsey, executive director of GRID Colorado.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rural, energy burdened town in Northern Colorado is now home to the state\u2019s first floating solar array.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"audience":[],"content-type":[12],"focus-area":[],"region":[64],"series":[],"content-author":[],"class_list":["post-6675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-clean-energy","content-type-news","region-colorado"],"acf":{"hero_media_type":"image","hero_media_image":null,"hero_media_url":"","hero_media_poster":null,"hero_video_play":"inline","related_stories":null,"pattern_override":null,"story_callouts":null,"media":null,"featured_blog_post":null,"featured_event":null,"pdf_download":null,"blockquote":null,"author":null,"notice":null,"social_embed":null,"contact_card":null,"meta_details":null,"faq":null,"table":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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