Solar panels mounted on the nearly 36 million square feet of warehouse roof space in Cumberland County could power about 56,000 homes, according to a new report released as state lawmakers continue to grapple with how to move forward on clean energy.
Cumberland has the third-most usable warehouse roof space in the state, behind Philadelphia and Allegheny County, according to fresh data from the Keystone Research Center, a left-leaning think tank.
If fully filled with solar panels, Cumberland County warehouses would generate around 576 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year, enough to power roughly half the households in the county, based on Pennsylvanians’ median residential energy use…