Lordstown Gm Plant Solar Panels

A massive lordstown ohio auto assembly plant is getting a new lease on life.

Lordstown gm plant solar panels.

The lordstown array will be gm s second very large solar project in ohio. 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. The array which sprawls 270 000 square feet is connected to ohio edison s power grid through a net metering agreement. The local community is watching.

Numerous workers from shuttered gm plants in the us were moved to lordstown for the open positions. 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. General motors said its new 2 2 megawatt ground mounted solar. 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 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 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. 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. In november 2016 gm announced to end the third shift by january 2017 affecting 1 200 workers.

In 2014 a 2 2 mw solar array was installed covering six and a half acres with 8 500 solar panels. General motors is in the midst of installing solar panels at ohio s lordstown complex the plant where gm builds the chevy cruze.