Spain is a country with plenty of sun hours, and wasting the solar resource is really missing a good opportunity. So, after similar announcements from Seat and Nissan, and thanks in part to the Spanish Government's incentives for installing solar panels, GM has decided to install up to 320,000 m2 (about 80 acres) of electricity-producing solar panels on the roof of its factory in Figueruelas, near Zaragoza, Spain. The agreement was announced by French company Veolia and represents an investment of about € 53 million. The Figueruelas factory currently mounts the Vauxall/Opel Corsa and Meriva models.
[Source: Econoticias]
1. This is great news and I applaud GME for it. Everyone is always so concerned about what comes out of the tailpipe when it comes to being green, yet plant operations are a big area where automakers can also make a huge impact in lowering CO2 emissions. Take GM's Lansing Delta Township plant as an example--one of only a few (if not the only) manufacturing facilities to get LEED gold certified.
Posted at 6:26PM on Apr 29th 2008 by MattKelly