Kaiser Permanente Starts Using Solar Power at Its Hospitals

Kaiser Permanente, the largest U.S. non-profit health management organization, switched on photovoltaic panels at a California medical center in a plan to provide 10 percent of its hospitals’ power from solar energy.

The HMO began drawing electricity from solar devices at its Santa Clara Medical Center, it said in a Jan. 7 statement. Oakland, California-based Kaiser Permanente agreed to deploy 15 megawatts of solar energy by the end of this year on rooftops and other outdoor surfaces at 15 of its California facilities.