Toledo, OH (WTVG) -- Solar power is about to help the City of Toledo save a lot of money. The public/private partnership is not only generating solar power, it's also putting a lot of people to work . A solar park was unveiled Wednesday at the Collins Park water treatment plant on York street on the city's East side. It's a five acre,5.2 million dollar project and it has local written all over it from the solar panels to the construction crews.

The Collins Park water treatment facility filters an average of 80 million gallons of water a day,and it takes a lot of power to do that. The solar field will help cut down considerably on the plant's energy costs. The plant usually takes five megawatts to run and Mayor Mike Bell says the solar field will provide a big chunk of that, "The energy we gain off the grid which will be about one megawatt will save 20-25 percent of the power we're bringing in now for consumption. This means we'll reduce the energy load and the carbon footprint from greenhouse gases and things like that."

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