On Friday, GM announced a 15-year renewable energy purchase agreement with NorthStar Clean Energy for three GM assembly plants. NorthStar’s Solar project in Newport, AR will support the electricity needs of GM manufacturing facilities in Michigan and Missouri. NorthStar’s Newport Solar project in Newport, Arkansas, will support the electricity needs of GM’s Lansing Delta Township Assembly and Lansing Grand River Assembly in Michigan, and the Wentzville Assembly site in Missouri by adding renewable energy directly to the grid we source from. The Newport project has a capacity of 180 megawatts. NorthStar Clean Energy is a unit of CMS Energy. This is the company’s largest power purchase deal yet and an important milestone in our goal to be carbon neutral by 2040. In 2022, GM announced that we had finalized the energy sourcing agreements required to secure 100% of the energy needed to power all our U.S. sites with renewable electricity by the end of 2025. The Newport site generates enough electricity to power 30,000 homes per year. Wayne
In Washington state here, we generally have wind farms. I've seen 3 small solar farms, all 3 abandoned.
It wasn't a rumor that the sun "occasionally" shines in Washington state. But it is so rare, its reported as if it is a UFO. Some people don't know what it is.
Yes, the MIdwest has lots of sun. That's why the Midwest is water short, even running out of their wonderful, but way over-tapped underground aquifers.
All part of global warming with disproportional distributions of water or drought. CT just got drenched and flooded while MA didn't get much.
Actually NOT! Once they discovered the huge MIdwest Aquiver, they began over-using it from the beginning. They knew they were draining it too rapidly & just like the loggers over-cutting trees & creating timber, growing crops at out-rageous rates wouldn't sustain the aquifers. Gifford Pinchot was able to get the fed gov't & loggers to some level of forest conservation & re-planting. But there was not a "Gifford Pinchot" for water aquifer conservation. The double tragedy of water aquifer waste, was there was so much water aquifer depletion 50+ years ago, that huge crops deep-sixed crop prices & the people wasting aquifer resources didn't make much money anyhow.
