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Nissan has switched on a new solar farm at its biggest manufacturing site in Europe, the latest landmark in the company’s journey towards Intelligent Mobility.

 

Made of 19,000 photo-voltaic panels, the new 4.75MW facility is now fully operational at Nissan Sunderland Plant in the UK, as Nissan strives towards its twin goals of zero emissions and zero fatalities.
 

Colin Lawther, Nissan’s Senior Vice President for Manufacturing, Purchasing and Supply Chain Management in Europe, said: “We have built over 50,000 Nissan LEAFs in Europe, and the industry-leading new 250km-range LEAF is now available. With 10 wind turbines already generating energy for our Sunderland plant, this new solar farm will further reduce the environmental impact of Nissan vehicles during their entire lifecycle.”
 

This is not the first time that a Renault-Nissan Alliance plant uses solar panels. In 2012, Renault installed the largest photovoltaic system in the auto industry. Located at six Renault plants in France, the solar panels cover a total area of 400,000 square meters. Together, they generate a power output of 59 megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity a year – enough to power a town of 15,000 people – and reduce CO2 emissions by 14,200 tons each year.
 

The Alliance is committed to ensuring a more sustainable future for the planet by integrating renewable energy sources. Nissan installed its first wind turbines in Sunderland in 2005. These 10 wind turbines, together with the new solar farm output, produce enough energy to build the equivalent of 31,374 vehicles.
 

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