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GM plant in Maryland to get solar panels

GM's hybrid transmission plant goes solar This sounds like it must have been a really easy decision for General Motors: Install a brand new solar array which will provide 1.2-megawatts of power - enough to cut its electricity bill by 20-percent per year beginning in 2009 - for free. We wish somebody would make an offer like that to us. Unfortunately, our homes don't quite have the 300,000 square feet of roof space necessary to hold the 8,700 solar panels. Although the General already has two warehouses with solar roof installations, the White ... Read more →

General Motors cuts manufacturing energy use by a quarter Sam Abuelsamid

For the past five years General Motors has had an ongoing effort to reduce energy consumption at all of its facilities. To that end they have reduced their energy use by twenty-five percent. So far ...

GM plant in Maryland to get solar panels 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

GM's hybrid transmission plant goes solar This sounds like it must have been a really easy decision for General Motors: Install a brand new solar array which will provide 1.2-megawatts of power - enough to cut its electricity bill by 20-percent per year beginning in 2009 - for free. We wish ...

General Motors cuts manufacturing energy use by a quarter 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

For the past five years General Motors has had an ongoing effort to reduce energy consumption at all of its facilities. To that end they have reduced their energy use by twenty-five percent. So far renewable energy sources represent about 2 percent of all of GM's energy use. Considering how much ...


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