Dive Summary:
- Walmart will expand its solar installation at a Buckeye, Arizona distribution center that will ultimately feature Walmart’s largest solar installation to date with over 14,000 solar panels on a 1,000,000 square-foot building and parking canopies.
- The panels at the center will generate up to 5.3 million kWh of renewable energy per year, which is enough to power more than 400 homes.
- The Buckeye installation is the second distribution center solar project in Arizona and comes a year after a 2 MW project was finished elsewhere in the state.
From the article:
Walmart launched an expansion of its solar initiative in Arizona at its Buckeye distribution center near Phoenix. The distribution center will feature Walmart's largest solar installation to date with over 14,000 solar panels on a 1,000,000 sq. feet building and parking canopies that will produce up to 30 percent of the center's energy needs.
The solar panels at the distribution center alone will generate up to 5.3 million kWh of renewable energy per year, which is the equivalent of powering more than 400 homes and taking equivalent of about 600 cars off the road. ...