All projects
02 / 06 · Education · 2022

Regional K-12 School District

Middlesex County, NJ

Multi-school portfolio installation. Combined rooftop + parking-canopy arrays. Funded via SREC-supported PPA — district pays $0 capex.

Regional K-12 School District — Education solar installation
System size
2.4 MW
System size
2.4 MW
Panels
5,600
Annual production
3.0M kWh / yr
CO₂ offset / yr
2,100 metric tons / yr
Payback
$0 capex (PPA)
Year
2022
The challenge

What the customer brought us.

Suburban school district with seven buildings, mixed roof ages, and zero capital budget for capex projects. Board required net-positive cash flow from year one with no taxpayer outlay. Curriculum integration also requested — STEM and environmental-science teachers wanted live system data.

The solution

How we engineered around it.

Portfolio PPA structure where Reliant's capital partner owns the systems for 20 years. District pays only for kWh produced at 30% below the utility tariff. Combined rooftop + parking-canopy designs across all seven sites — canopies double as shaded lunch areas at three middle schools. Public monitoring dashboards hung in each building's main hallway.

The outcome

What's actually happening on the meter.

First-year savings: $215K against utility baseline. PPA structure protects district from utility rate inflation for 20 years. Three teachers now use the system data in physics, environmental science, and economics curricula. District pursuing Phase II to add storage at two sites.

System spec

The hardware on the building.

panels
Tier-1 mono PERC 545W (rooftop) and 580W (canopy) modules
inverters
Distributed string inverters per building
mounting
Mixed: ballasted rooftop + pile-driven canopy steel
Timeline
Contract to PTO: 11 months (multi-site)
Reliant treated our school district like a partner — not a project. The system has been quietly running for years, the savings line up to the proposal, and when we needed a service call they answered the phone.
Facilities Director
K-12 District, NJ

Testimonial pending client release

Build your project

Your facility could be the next case study.

Tell us about your building, your utility bills, and your goals. We'll model the project and come back with a fixed-price EPC proposal.

Start your assessment

By submitting this form, you agree to our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy. Reliant Solar uses your information only to respond to your inquiry — we never sell or share contact details.

We respond within one business day. No spam, no aggressive sales calls — that's not how we operate.

Quarterly insights

Commercial solar intel — straight to your inbox.

Four notes a year. Real-world project takeaways, incentive deadlines, and tariff shifts that move the needle on commercial solar economics. No fluff.

By submitting this form, you agree to our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy. Reliant Solar uses your information only to respond to your inquiry — we never sell or share contact details.

Unsubscribe any time · No spam, ever