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English: As seen in April 2023, the Ellicott Creek Trailway in Amherst, New York passes alongside the University at Buffalo's gargantuan Solar Stroll. Completed in 2021 and so named for its location next to the Trailway, this is the largest of five ground-mounted solar arrays built by UB in partnership with Solar Liberty, a locally-based installation firm, as part of the school's Climate Action Plan. It comprises nearly 17,000 individual solar panels spread over an area of nearly 25 acres, with a generating capacity of about 8.3 million kWh per year, or about enough to offset 1,350 homes. The intention is for these solar farms to eventually fulfill the entirety of UB's electricity necessities. In the background at right rises the transmitter tower for radio station WBFO, an NPR member station that was owned and operated by UB until 2011. Though now part of the Buffalo Toronto Public Media family of stations, this field adjacent to the North Campus is still the site of its 417-foot antenna which beams its signal over a roughly 4,650-square-mile area encompassing all of Erie, Niagara, Orleans, and Genesee Counties, the northwestern half of Wyoming County, and the eastern two-thirds of the Niagara Peninsula in neighboring Canada. (Western New York's southerly counties of Chautauqua, Cattaraugus and Allegany are served by repeater stations WUBJ and WOLN, broadcasting from Jamestown and Olean respectively.)