The installation is the largest solar farm in the Southeastern Us, and at peak production can generate enough power to provide electricity to 250 homes.
Under a 20-year agreement, the solar farm with belong to South Carolina Electric and Gas and supply all of its power to the Boeing facility.
From now on, the plant, which will produce its first Dreamliner in the first quarter of 2012, will get up to 20 percent of its power from the more than 18,000 photovoltaic solar panels that were installed on the roof of its main assembly facility between May and October of this year.
Boeing officials said the remaining 80 percent of the electricity used at the plant will come from the nearby KapStone paper plant in North Charleston which produces steam power from biomass.
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