Day by day, the need for a revamping of our electricity production systems is becoming extremely necessary. With the depleting resources and pollution building up from fossil fuel combustion for production, solar energy is one most renewable and clean source of energy. So when a company comes up to power its entire operations with the help of solar energy, one cannot help but be glad. Boeing has come up with a concept of covering up the entire roof of the new 787 jet assembly facility with solar panels – thus making the entire south Carolina operation to purely function on renewable energy alone.
These thin solar panels on top of the installation, which would easily cover the area of eight-foot ball fields, are going to provide 2.6 megawatts of electricity for the plant; energy which can power up to 250 homes. This venture would be the sixth largest solar installation in the US (by virtue of power production) and the largest in the southeast.
Kevin Marsh, the president of SCE&G, said
…the company is installing and maintaining more than 18,000 solar panels on the roof of the assembly building, an area of about 10 acres.
SCE&G, which is a subsidiary of Scana Corp., will supplement the solar energy supplies with power from its own system, together with renewable energy certificates, to meet the energy requirements of Boeing.
Via: REepedia
