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Archive Home > 2008 > August > 08 > State’s ambitious solar-energy initiative may find its way east of the Cascades

State’s ambitious solar-energy initiative may find its way east of the Cascades

By James Sinks / The Bulletin
August 8, 2008

SALEM — If you were installing solar energy cells at your house, you’d pick the sunniest spot, right?

The state of Oregon unveiled Thursday its first highway solar project — smack in the middle of the rainy Willamette Valley.

The freeway-median-based photovoltaic....

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