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The town of Twisp, Wash., lost power in the wake of the Okanogan Complex Fire in 2015, and it's looking to make sure that doesn't happen again.
Thanks to a $1.1 million grant from the Washington State Department of Commerce, solar panels will be installed on the town's Civic Building and Emergency Operations Center, which will serve as an emergency operations center in the event of a wildfire, reports the Spokesman-Review.
The panels will store energy generated by the sun and convert it to electricity via an inverter, reducing the town's reliance on a diesel backup generator and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 6.6 tons per year, according to the grant.
The system will run independently of the town's diesel generator from April to October.
"The valley is a continuum and we all work to preserve the things we love about the valley," Tim Matsui, a Twisp town council member who helped write the grant application, tells the Spokesman-Review.
"Which I've been hearing is largely the natural beauty of the valley as well as this sense of community and shared values around the protection of this resource that we have."
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