Nissan to save some CO2 by installing solar panels on Spanish plants
In an effort to both save some euros off the electricity bill and some CO2 from hitting the environment, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd, will install 606 solar panels at its Barcelona (Spain) vehicle plant by the end of this summer. which will cover a surface of 3,000 square-metres and generate 308,000 kWh of electricity per year, which helps them reduce CO2 emissions by 110 tons.
Nissan is also installed a similar layout on its other plant in Spain, in Ávila this summer, 732 solar panels resulting in savings of 267 tons of CO2 emissions every year. But not only Spain is getting renewable energy to power the plants, Nissan is also using renewable energy at its Sunderland vehicle plant in the UK, where it has erected six wind turbines good for 5 percent of the plant's electricity which cuts CO2 emissions by 3,300 tons a year.
These interventions are being held under Nissan's Green Program 2010, which expectations are to lower CO2 emissions 7 percent from 2005 levels.
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Jeff Gilleran 11:31AM (6/14/2007)
Good for them.
I hope more companies move toward solar power.
Honestly, you have a huge roof overhead and with the exception of doing some AC maintenance from time to time its very usable real estate for power regeneration.
All of which would happen during the business hours time of the day (from 8-4 or 9 to 5).
In time, I hope to see mass multi-spectral solar cells using considerably more bandwidth of light to enhance efficency much much higher.
I dont see a reason that in the near future we couldnt achieve 80-90% efficency as opposed to older tech, that runs about 28% and the newer 3 band types that approach 40% (although more costly to produce).
Once costs become easier to swallow I really dont see a reason one to not have every new home use solar grids built "standard" with them and older homes without it could easily be retrofitted with the same.
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