GM (General Motors) is now following in the
footsteps of Apple it relates to an investment in Alternative Energy as noted
earlier on my blog
article entitled “Apple's
US$848 million 1,300-acre Solar Farm - How First Solar is decoupling Green
Apple from the Grid using Renewable Energy”.
They've
decided to some of their money into adding some 34 MW of Power to a Wind Farm
in Mexico as reported in the article “Why
GM Wants To Buy Wind Energy”, published 3/24/2015 by Heather Clancy, Forbes.
Their
press Release on their GM Blog entitled “Wind
Power to Debut on GM’s Renewable Energy Roster” give a lot more details on
their plans for Renewable Energy usage by the year 2020. GM entered into a Power purchase agreement with Enel Green Power, with is the
Renewable energy part of the Enel Group,
are the contractors responsible for the construction and maintenance of the
Palo Alto, Mexico.
The
site has great wind and most likely cheap Mexican labour along with Tax breaks,
according to GM Global Manager of Renewable
Energy Rob Threlkeld, quote: “Mexico is an ideal location for our first wind
project. Energy is fed to a national grid, making it easier to reduce or add
energy capacity at a facility. There’s also a good business case as prices for
traditional power are about a third greater than the United States”.
GM and Enel Green Power
34 MW Wind Turbine Plant – How Large Companies are benefitting from Alternative
Energy
Currently
GM Renewable Energy usage looks as thus:
1.
9% of their Power comes from Renewable
Energy
2.
104 MW of power from solar, landfill gas
and waste to energy
After
the 34MW of Wind Power is added, it will look as thus:
1.
12% of their Power comes from Renewable
Energy
2.
138 MW of power from solar, landfill gas,
Waste to Energy and Wind Energy
This
will help them to achieve their 2020 goals with the Wind Energy being put to
good productive use:
1.
75% to power most of GM’s Toluca Complex sitting on 104 acres
2.
25% to power Silao, San Luis Potosi and
Ramos Arizpe complexes
Good
to note here that 34 MW is roughly about seventeen (17) Turbines, based on the
configurations being used by GM.
Once
completed in the next four (4) years, this will be GM's
largest usage of Renewable Energy and will help GM
reduce their carbon footprint by some 40,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions
annually.
That’s
basically a lot of Electricity bills and usage of oil save right there, more
than economic justification for GM to go Renewable
in a big way!
Hope
this means that their soon-to-be launched 2016 Chevy Bolt All-Electric Vehicle
will be cheaper as well as noted in my blog article entitled “US$30,000
2016 Chevrolet Bolt - How GM plans to innovate All-Electric Vehicles to avoid
Tesla and Nissan beating them”.
A
rooftop Garden, though, like Method, a Organic Cleaning Product company as
detailed in my MICO Wars
blog article entitled “Gotham
Greens now the Largest Rooftop Greenhouse – Alternative Hydroponics Farming
Path” would be a nice organic touch!
Here’s
the link:
Enel Group Twitter feed: @EnelGroup
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