WADSWORTH, Nev., April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The Natchez Elementary School on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe's Reservation in Nevada will soon be home to a new solar energy system that will generate clean, reliable and free electricity from the sun. The project is being built by Black Rock Solar, with support from MMA Renewable Ventures and Nevada's Sierra Pacific Power Company. In recognition of the organization's work to bring low and no cost solar power to rural schools and hospitals across Nevada, Black Rock Solar Executive Director Tom Price was honored this week as one of People Magazine's "Environmental Heroes" for 2008.

The 60 kilowatt solar power system is expected ...