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Ringling College of Art and Design goes Solar

SARASOTA, FLORIDA (1/9/09) - Florida based renewable energy company, Harrimans Inc, announced it has been selected by Willis A. Smith Construction, Inc., Doyle Electrical Services, to furnish and install the Photovoltaic solar electric system for the colleges new Leeds Certified (5) story Academic Student Building. According to Tom Harriman-CEO, this is a very unique project – each of the (40) Solar World 175 watt Sun Module – roof top mounted panels will incorporate the newest in state of the art Solar Micro Inverter technology. Each Solar World module will be equipped with an Enphase Energy micro inverter designed to track the maximum power points through specific algorithms designed to calculate and respond to temperature and sunlight changes detected at each photovoltaic panel. Ringling College of Art and Design, founded in 1931, is a private not-for-profit fully accredited college offering the Bachelor’s degree in 14 disciplines.