A massive lordstown ohio auto assembly plant is getting a new lease on life.
Lordstown gm plant solar panels.
In 2014 a 2 2 mw solar array was installed covering six and a half acres with 8 500 solar panels.
Numerous workers from shuttered gm plants in the us were moved to lordstown for the open positions.
Lordstown ohio general motors new 2 2mw ground mounted solar array will be complete by the end of 2014 at its lordstown complex home of the chevrolet cruze.
The lordstown array will be gm s second very large solar project in ohio.
The renewable energy produced by the array is enough to power nearly 1 5 of the plant and helps avoid the equivalent of 1 993 tons of carbon dioxide emissions from entering the atmosphere.
The solar array at the lordstown complex in lordstown ohio will be a 2 2 megawatt ground mounted array making it the general s biggest in the western hemisphere.
The local community is watching.
General motors is in the midst of installing solar panels at ohio s lordstown complex the plant where gm builds the chevy cruze.
The array which sprawls 270 000 square feet is connected to ohio edison s power grid through a net metering agreement.
Solar photovoltaic power plant area.
Ranck electric teamed with solscient energy to build at the time general motor s largest solar array in the western hemisphere.
The car maker completed a 1 8 megawatt rooftop array at its toledo automotive transmission plant less than a year ago.
General motors said its new 2 2 megawatt ground mounted solar.
An electric pickup truck brings new energy to lordstown ohio an old general motors plant is being retooled to make a battery powered work truck the endurance.