On Wednesday, Oct. 29, Milwaukee Public Museum president and CEO Dennis Kois will dedicate the museum's solar panel wall, with a special acknowledgement for the donors who helped make the project possible.

The dedication will take place near the museum entrance at 800 W. Wells St, beginning at 11 a.m. with a brief conference featuring remarks from Kois and county executive Chris Abele. A media Q&A session will follow.

Completed in early October, the six-story solar panel wall is the only building-mounted solar panel array in the Midwest. 

The project was begun in July 2013 and was expected to be completed in five months, but was set back by unexpected structural complications and a supplier's bankruptcy.

The new wall is expected to generate 77,533 kilowatt hours of electricity a year,  enough to power nearly 500 60-watt light bulbs for eight hours a day for an entire year.