Izzy’s Ice Cream
Ice cream made with solar power, how cool is that? Jeff Sommers, the owner of Izzy’s Ice Cream in St. Paul, MN, organized a small army of volunteers to assemble the mounting racks and set up the PV modules, and we installed the electrical wiring and the battery storage. This is truly a community solar project at a neighborhood gathering place!
The 10kW solar electric system produces about 12,500kWh of electricity on average per year. Producing 12,500kWh of electricity annually from coal emits about 25,000 pounds of carbon dioxide. Preventing this much carbon dioxide from being released to the atmosphere is equivalent to adding 1,250 trees to our forests. Over a 30-year span, IPS expects this system will offset 750,000 pounds or 375 tons of carbon dioxide.