AMITY TWP., Pa. \u2013 A statewide environmental group looked to learn more about one of the first businesses in Berks County to go solar.<\/p>\n
Officials with PennEnvironment toured Manatawny Creek Winery in Amity Township.<\/p>\n
The winery installed solar panels in 2007, and now those panels are near the end of their life span.<\/p>\n
The panels offset 25% of the winery’s annual energy usage.<\/p>\n
PennEnvironment says the business could be an inspiration to others.<\/p>\n
\u201cPennsylvania currently gets only 4% of its electricity from those kind of renewable sources, I think even less than 1% from solar itself,\u201d said Belle Sherwood, climate and clean energy advocate with PennEnvironment. \u201cSo there’s a lot of room to grow. Manatawny is a great example of, you know, someone that’s had solar for a long time, but can be an inspiration to other businesses in the area.\u201d<\/p>\n
Officials say solar technology has come a long way since the winery installed the panels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMITY TWP., Pa. \u2013 A statewide environmental group looked to learn more about one of the first businesses…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[75391,128,130,129,45540],"class_list":{"0":"post-167292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-pennenvironment","9":"tag-reading-city","10":"tag-reading-city-headlines","11":"tag-reading-city-news","12":"tag-solar-panels"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167292","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=167292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}