{"id":121324,"date":"2026-02-23T16:27:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/121324\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:27:06","slug":"upmc-expands-renewable-energy-footprint-with-first-solar-farm-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/121324\/","title":{"rendered":"UPMC expands renewable energy footprint with first solar farm \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/organization\/upmc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UPMC<\/a> will build its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upmc.com\/media\/news\/021826-solar-farm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first solar farm<\/a> at one of its hospitals outside of Pittsburgh, increasing its footprint in renewable energy and advancing its longtime sustainability initiative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The 5.5-megawatt facility will be built over the coming months at UPMC Cole, a 25-bed critical-access hospital in Coudersport, Potter County, in north-central Pennsylvania. The land is owned by UPMC and will include not only the arrays and infrastructure but also a road accessing it, said Dr. Michael Boninger, chief medical sustainability officer of the Pittsburgh-based health care organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The UPMC Center for Sustainability is using the incentives through the Inflation Reduction Act to help build the solar farm in cooperation with utility FirstEnergy Corp and partner GreenWorks Development. It will become operational in 2027. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/02\/20\/upmc-cole-first-solar-farm.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/02\/20\/upmc-cole-first-solar-farm.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPMC will build its first solar farm at one of its hospitals outside of Pittsburgh, increasing its footprint&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17558,12620,57143,1125,57144,7753,2328,33804,1835,12933,1396,17212,5091,14034,57145,73,75,74,18177,7172,44702,13459,3571,4372,57146,7695,57147,4757],"class_list":{"0":"post-121324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-alternative","9":"tag-battery","10":"tag-cells","11":"tag-clean-energy","12":"tag-ecological","13":"tag-electricity","14":"tag-energy","15":"tag-environmental","16":"tag-farm","17":"tag-green","18":"tag-industry","19":"tag-innovation","20":"tag-nature","21":"tag-panel","22":"tag-photovoltaic","23":"tag-pittsburgh","24":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","25":"tag-pittsburgh-news","26":"tag-plant","27":"tag-power","28":"tag-renewable","29":"tag-resource","30":"tag-sky","31":"tag-solar","32":"tag-solar-panel","33":"tag-station","34":"tag-sunlight","35":"tag-system"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}