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Chattanooga Airport lands $3 million solar grant

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By Mike Pare, Chattanooga Times Free Press - bio
An Allegiant Air jet lifts off near a solar panel farm recently installed at the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport. Photo by Dan Henry/Times Free Press An Allegiant Air jet lifts off near a solar panel farm recently installed at the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport. Photo by Dan Henry/Times Free Press

CHATTANOOGA, TN (Times Free Press) -- The FAA Airport Improvement Program grant will fund the second part of a three-phase project at the airport, said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today in a news release.

Lovell Field is the only commercial airport in Tennessee with a solar farm, officials have said.

Terry Hart, the Chattanooga Airport's chief, said earlier that the solar farm benefits both the airport and the community as it reduces internal energy costs and produces clean power for the city.

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