Toyota’s Massive Solar Array

What do you get when you combine Lambeau Field, The Saddle Dome, Giants Stadium, and the Metrodome? You get the new and improved , bigger than 4 football fields, Toyota’s solar array.

Toyota’s solar array is 242,000 square feet and provides Toyota’s North America Parts Center in California with 60% of its energy needs. With a total capacity of 2.3 megawatts, the installation is capable of generating 3.7 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually and it is expected to avoid about 6.4 million pounds of CO2 emissions per year.

This is an amazing step forward for Toyota and I would love to see this green initiative enacted to all their plants. However, what I am wondering is why this was not initiated on their roof? Seems to always be a logical spot but there must have been some technical aspect to consider that hindered them from doing that. All and all, and awesome move by Toyota. Click here to learn more.

Keep it Green,

Paul

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 25th, 2008 at 11:04 am and is filed under Automotive, Energy. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Toyota’s Massive Solar Array”

1. Lucretia Glyn says:

   March 30, 2010 at 4:28 pm

   Appreciate the blog. I’ve been building solar panels for small businesses for months now and carrying out pretty well… Lucky I found this place.

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