Hood River Valley High School has installed solar panels to producing renewable energy in part through a $37,000 grant from Pacific Power’s Blue Sky Program.  The school received the grant for the installation of a 20-kilowatt solar array that has been installed on the roof of the science classroom wing and is anticipated to produce enough clean, renewable energy to power the entire seven-classroom science wing with solar-generated electricity.  An educational reader board will be installed on the inside of the science wing, which will provide information to students, staff and visitors about the amount of energy produced in real-time and over the lifespan of the array.  Students in the school’s Alternative Energy Resources class will be able to monitor the output of the panels and make comparisons to the energy used in different portions of the building for educational purposes.  Additional funding came from an Energy Trust of Oregon incentive of $29,500.  Local contractor Scott Sorenson of Common Energy handled installation.