A Southern Florida city with a strong record of solar success is building on that achievement by installing photovoltaic panels on additional municipal buildings, according to published reports.

The City of Tamarac will outfit Station 15 of the Fire Department and the Parks and Recreation Administrative Building with solar panels under the auspices of a $184,000 grant from the U.S. Energy Department.

"We were recently approved for another grant through the Department of Energy," assistant city manager Diane Phillips told the Sun Sentinel. "We're very excited about it."

Since April, the Community Center has been employing solar panels, which have produced more than 23,400 kilowatt hours of electricity. The panels have helped reduce the city's electric bill by more than $2,500. Tamarac's carbon footprint has decreased by more than 16,380 kilograms.

"The program is to allow residents and businesses to do some retrofitting and energy efficient improvements to their own facilities," she said.

And the Energy Department also supports the city establishing an energy efficient parking lot and street lights.

"The savings are only going to get better as [electricity] gets more expensive," Jack Strain, public works director told the publication.