SmartStop Self Storage REIT has completed its first solar panel project as part of a broader companywide initiative to reduce SmartStop’s carbon footprint and become more energy efficient. The project at Mt. Pleasant was designed and installed in cooperation with Warner Energy.
The panels, which were installed at SmartStop’s Mt. Pleasant, S.C., location, are expected to collectively contribute energy output of 61.38 kilowatt photovoltaics (kW PV), resulting in an annualized savings of 81,500 kilowatt hours (kWh). At full capacity, the electricity savings generated from this system is equivalent to replacing or removing:
Greenhouse gas emissions from ~12.4 passenger vehicles driven for one yea;
Emissions from a single passenger vehicle driven 142,987 miles
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from approx. 9.8 homes’ annualized electricity use
CO2 sequestered from ~75.3 acres of U.S. forests in one year
The company plans to
