Lordstown Gm Plant Solar Panels

In november 2016 gm announced to end the third shift by january 2017 affecting 1 200 workers.

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. 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 local community is watching.

General motors said its new 2 2 megawatt ground mounted solar. 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. The car maker completed a 1 8 megawatt rooftop array at its toledo automotive transmission plant less than a year ago.

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. 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. Ranck electric teamed with solscient energy to build at the time general motor s largest solar array in the western hemisphere. The array which sprawls 270 000 square feet is connected to ohio edison s power grid through a net metering agreement.

Numerous workers from shuttered gm plants in the us were moved to lordstown for the open positions. 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.