WICHITA, KS—Johnson Controls’ assembly plant here now gets all of its electricity from wind energy. The 1.3 million square foot plant manufactures residential heating and air conditioning equipment for the YORK, Luxaire, Coleman and Champion brands.
If a pallet-load of stuff must be moved around a warehouse, factory or retailer somewhere in the world, chances are pretty good that the machine doing the heavy lifting was made by Crown Equipment Corp.
Ashley Furniture Industries Inc. has installed 28,776 solar panels on the roof of its assembly plant in Leesport, PA. The panels will produce more than 9,630,600 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year.
DETROIT, MI — General Motors and DTE Energy are working together to accelerate Michigan’s transition to renewable energy with a deal to source 500,000 megawatt hours of solar energy as part of DTE’s MIGreenPower program.
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $3 million for high-performance computing, modeling, and simulation projects to improve manufacturing processes.
NORTH LIBERTY, IA — Solar installer Moxie Solar, which installed almost 5 MW of projects in 2018 and likely tripled its business in 2019, has announced plans to set up a 100-MW solar panel assembly operation in Iowa.