What Happened to Napa Valley College’s $7.5M Solar Field?

November 19, 2025

(TNS) — It was April 2006, and the mood was celebratory at Napa Valley College. A crowd had assembled to toast the school’s new solar field — 5,600 photovoltaic panels arranged in neat rows across five acres of floodplain the school said couldn’t be used for much else beyond hay cultivation.

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