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Despite Budget Cuts and Base Expansion, Trying to Save Energy
The New York Times: EL PASO — Outside a building that provides medical care for wounded soldiers at Fort Bliss, two long, dark lines of hundreds of solar panels stand on supports over the parking lot, moving to follow the sun.
“Everybody wants to park under the solar panels,” said B. J. Tomlinson, the renewable energy and sustainable engineering program manager at Fort Bliss. The roughly $1 million system, paid for by the Army, began producing power this year.
