The City of Atlanta is celebrating new solar panels for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport’s fire station, the first of over a dozen fire stations in the city receiving solar panels, according to Mayor Andre Dickens.
At a ceremony celebrating renewable energy at Fire Station 40 on Jan. 8, Dickens said this is just one part of how the city is transitioning all its municipal operations to renewable energy by 2035.
“Expanding our solar Atlanta program to include the airport is key, again, to advancing our 100% clean energy goal and our carbon emissions reduction goals as well,” the mayor said.
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