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The next time you ride the Staten Ferry take a good look at the roof of the terminal on the Manhattan side, or check out the photo in the link to Magnetek. You can see the beautiful blue things that look like windows. But they’re not windows. They’re photovoltaic solar panels. Just like the solar chips that power your calculators, and the solar powered walkway lights you see all over the suburbs, these convert sunlight into electricity, and provide power for the ferry terminal.Atlantis Energy Systems, Inc., of Poughkeepsie, NY, produced the photovoltaic modules.

Magnetek built the inverters used to connect the system to the electric grid. Magnetek Aurora™ Inverters Complete Manhattan’s Largest Building Integrated Solar Power System.