Friday, February 22, 2019

Ford Will Use 500,000 Megawatt Hours Of Wind Energy To Make F-150, Raptor, Ranger


Ford Motor Company and DTE Energy announced today that the automaker would procure 500,000 megawatt hours of Michigan wind energy from the utility through DTE’s MIGreenPower program. The zero-emission energy will be used at Ford’s Dearborn Truck Plant, the Michigan Assembly Plant (where Ford has already installed a 500-kilowatt solar photovoltaic panel system) and other Detroit-area Ford facilities.

In a statement announcing the procurment, Ford’s global director of energy and technology, George Andraos, said “Ford supports the implementation of renewable energy where the project can be tied to the customer’s facility, either directly or through the local distribution utility, and we believe that supports local jobs, improves the local environment and adds resiliency to the local grid.”

Ford builds the F-150 and the Raptor in the Dearborn Truck Plant and the new 2020 Ranger at the Michigan Assembly Plant. Ford says that these two production facilities are on track to be powered by “100 percent locally sourced renewable energy by January 2021.”

Ford has been moving towards renewable energy in various ways for many years. As the company’s Tweet above, from 2014, shows.  In 2010, Ford announced that it would reduce the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions produced in the manufacturing of its vehicles by 30 percent per vehicle by 2025. Ford hit this target in 2017 and will announce a new Global Carbon Reduction Strategy, which it says will focus more on renewable energy, in its 20th

annual Sustainability Report that will be published in June.

Earlier this month, the Danish energy giant Vestas announced that it would turn an old Ford Motors factory in Geelong, Australia into a production plant to build wind turbines.

Ford Motor Company and DTE Energy announced today that the automaker would procure 500,000 megawatt hours of Michigan wind energy from the utility through DTE’s MIGreenPower program. The zero-emission energy will be used at Ford’s Dearborn Truck Plant, the Michigan Assembly Plant (where Ford has already installed a 500-kilowatt solar photovoltaic panel system) and other Detroit-area Ford facilities.

In a statement announcing the procurement, Ford’s global director of energy and technology, George Andraos, said “Ford supports the implementation of renewable energy where the project can be tied to the customer’s facility, either directly or through the local distribution utility, and we believe that supports local jobs, improves the local environment and adds resiliency to the local grid.”

Ford builds the F-150 and the Raptor in the Dearborn Truck Plant and the new 2020 Ranger at the Michigan Assembly Plant. Ford says that these two production facilities are on track to be powered by “100 percent locally sourced renewable energy by January 2021.”

Ford has been moving towards renewable energy in various ways for many years. As the company’s Tweet above, from 2014, shows.  In 2010, Ford announced that it would reduce the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions produced in the manufacturing of its vehicles by 30 percent per vehicle by 2025. Ford hit this target in 2017 and will announce a new Global Carbon Reduction Strategy, which it says will focus more on renewable energy, in its 20th annual Sustainability Report that will be published in June.

Earlier this month, the Danish energy giant Vestas announced that it would turn an old Ford Motors factory in Geelong, Australia into a production plant to build wind turbines.

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