City using solar energy to power wastewater treatment facility

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. Most Monticello residents probably aren’t aware that the wastewater treatment plant off Mamie Scott Drive is now operating off solar power and providing energy cost savings to the city. After more than four years in the works, installation of a 500-kW solar array at the plant was finally completed earlier this year, thanks to a $2 million grant from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP). According to early estimates from Mittauer and