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Acadia National Park receives $1 million grant to install solar panels and EV chargers

The sun's rays strike the rocky coast of Acadia National Park, in Maine, Thursday, May 2, 2013.
Robert F. Bukaty
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AP
The sun's rays strike the rocky coast of Acadia National Park, in Maine, Thursday, May 2, 2013.

Acadia National Park is receiving a $1 million dollar federal grant to install rooftop solar panels and a dozen electric vehicle charging stations at its McFarland Hill headquarters campus in Bar Harbor.

The National Park Service is in the midst of constructing a new 32,000 square foot LEED silver facility at the site.

The solar panels are expected to move Acadia toward net-zero emissions by generating more than 50% of the new facility's energy use.