{"id":411014,"date":"2017-11-28T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=5dcf59a293de9fd77ff65d4e94561f7d"},"modified":"2017-11-28T09:25:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T13:25:00","slug":"new-norcia-solar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=411014","title":{"rendered":"New Norcia solar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2017\/11\/new_norcia_solar\/17272441-1-eng-GB\/New_Norcia_solar_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA\u2019s deep-space ground station at New Norcia, Western Australia, is now being powered in part by sunlight, thanks to a new solar power \u2018farm\u2019 completed in August 2017.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe farm has 840 photovoltaic panels arranged in five double rows with a rated capacity of 250 kW. This is expected to generate 470 MWh of electricity annually, about 40% of the station\u2019s annual needs and equal to the electricity needed to power 134 typical households.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>More information<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Operations\/Estrack\/Going_green_to_the_Red_Planet\" title=\"Going green to the Red Planet\" >Going green to the Red Planet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2017\/11\/new_norcia_solar\/17272441-1-eng-GB\/New_Norcia_solar_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nESA&rsquo;s deep-space ground station at New Norcia, Western Australia, is now being powered in part by sunlight, thanks to a new solar power &lsquo;farm&rsquo; completed in August 2017.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe farm has 840 photovoltaic panels arranged in five double rows with a rated capacity of 250 kW. This is expected to generate 470 MWh of electricity annually, about 40% of the station&rsquo;s annual needs and equal to the electricity needed to power 134 typical households.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>More information<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Operations\/Estrack\/Going_green_to_the_Red_Planet\" title=\"Going green to the Red Planet\" target=\"_blank\">Going green to the Red Planet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=411014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411015,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411014\/revisions\/411015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}