The development kicked off with a 343,000-sf multi-tenant specfacility set for completion this spring, but it is two buildingswith more than one million sf each that hold the promise forsignificant future revenue enhancement, according to John Morgan,AMB vice president, development, east region, and Steven Campbell,senior vice president and director of environmental and developmentservices. The potential source of revenue is solar power.

"Many of our buildings have a million sf of roof area or more,"notes Morgan. "You need about one megawatt of power to run thatbuilding. That translates to about 100,000 sf of photovoltaiccells, which means you have 900,000 sf remaining where you couldgenerate another nine megawatts of power."

Theoretically, says Morgan, a building owner could sell theexcess power back to the local utility company, but currently thereare obstacles to doing so. The more serious obstacle is aregulatory environment, which varies somewhat from state to state,that limits the amount of energy that can be returned to theutility grid for compensation.