Oct 11 2010
Cox Enterprises, a company providing communications, media and automotive services, has made it known that it has finished the installation of the solar power generating facility at its Manheim Portland facility located on North Hayden Island Drive.
The rooftop photovoltaic solar panel installation covers an area of 16,500 square feet to generate 193 MWh of energy every year. The power produced from the facility will meet nearly 25% of its total power requirement and reduce its carbon footprint to that extent. From its inception in 2007 Cox Enterprises is looking for ways to lessen its power consumption by moving over to the use of clean energy technologies. The company anticipates that its current renewable energy program will help its 66,000 employees to learn about it and will persuade them to implement energy conserving practices.
Steve Bradley, the company’s Director of engineering and business continuity and alternate energy, said that the solar installation over Manheim Portland is intimately connected with the company’s national sustainability program, He called the present project at Manheim Portland as its 10th renewable energy project and added that all the projects together avert approximately 12,000 tons of CO2 emissions every year. Jim Mumford, Manheim Portland’s General Manager, expressed his happiness about the installation and said that the visible solar installation publicly declared the commitment of the company in preserving energy.