Ask The Answer Person: "Our community seems to have a lot of solar cells on roofs. How much of the Decorah community's electricity is provided by these cells?"

Max emails: "Our community seems to have a lot of solar cells on roofs.  How much of the Decorah community's electricity is provided by these cells?" 

The Answer Person says: "This is a tough question to answer. The City of Decorah doesn't keep statistics about this specific question.  What we do know comes from Alliant Energy's report on how many of their Decorah customers have solar panels.  As of April 2017, 173 Alliant customers get some or all of their electricity from solar panels. These customers generate 2.8 megawatts of electricity."