Lordstown Gm Plant Solar Panels

The car maker completed a 1 8 megawatt rooftop array at its toledo automotive transmission plant less than a year ago.

Lordstown gm plant solar panels.

A massive lordstown ohio auto assembly plant is getting a new lease on life. 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. 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. When the last of more than 8 500 solar panels are in place it will be gm s largest solar installation in the western hemisphere.

General motors said its new 2 2 megawatt ground mounted solar. The local community is watching. The array which sprawls 270 000 square feet is connected to ohio edison s power grid through a net metering agreement. The lordstown array will be gm s second very large solar project in ohio.

Ranck electric teamed with solscient energy to build at the time general motor s largest solar array in the western hemisphere. Numerous workers from shuttered gm plants in the us were moved to lordstown for the open positions. In november 2016 gm announced to end the third shift by january 2017 affecting 1 200 workers. Solar photovoltaic power plant area.

General motors is in the midst of installing solar panels at ohio s lordstown complex the plant where gm builds the chevy cruze. The 2 2 mw ground mounted array consists of solar flex racking and 8 500 solar panels has the capability of powering 1 5 of the chevy cruze assembly plant.