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Solar Panels

Columbia Heights Public Schools received a grant in 2025 from the Minnesota Department of Commerce Solar for Schools Program. We are adding solar to help power our school and to benefit our students and community now and into the future. 

Benefits of Solar for Schools
  • Adding solar reduces our school's energy costs.
  • Students will have opportunities for real-time learning about solar and learn about careers in the growing clean energy economy.
  • Our local economy benefits from jobs to install solar plus new infrastructure. 
  • Solar power helps reduce electricity-based greenhouse gas emissions. 
  • Solar power adds "homegrown" renewable sources of energy to our school and the state's electrical grid, since Minnesota has to import 100% of all fossil fuels.

For more Solar for Schools Program information, visit mn.gov/Solar4Schools.