Renew the parks: Renewable energy in the National Park Service

Conference · Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1997

OSTI ID:355757

DeNio, D ^[1]

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1. National Park Service, Denver, CO (United States). Denver Service Center

The National Park Service (NPS) is the steward of some of the world`s finest natural and cultural resources. When the Park Service celebrated its 75th birthday in 1991, it charted a course for how to accomplish its mission into the next century. Incorporating sustainability and sustainable design into all NPS operations and development is one means of meeting the challenges that face the National Park Service. The main components of sustainable design include energy conservation and the use of renewable energy sources, including solar, wind, geothermal, micro-hydro, biomass, and tidal. The focus of this paper is photovoltaic (PV)--the conversion of sunlight to direct current electricity.

• Sponsoring Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• OSTI ID: 355757
• Report Number(s): CONF-970441-; ISBN 0-89553-169-0; TRN: IM9931%%278
• Resource Relation: Conference: SOLAR `97: national solar energy conference, Washington, DC (United States), 25-30 Apr 1997; Other Information: PBD: 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the 1997 American Solar Energy Society annual conference; Campbell-Howe, R.; Wilkins-Crowder, B. [eds.]; PB: 369 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
29 ENERGY PLANNING AND POLICY
RECREATIONAL AREAS
PUBLIC LANDS
US DOI
ENERGY CONSERVATION
PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER SUPPLIES
USES
ENERGY POLICY