Intel’s 3 Million Square Feet of Solar Panels Help Heat, Cool and Light
May 17 2018 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
Today, Intel reports on its ongoing work worldwide to reduce its
climate and environmental footprint in its annual Corporate
Responsibility Report.
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A 2017 photo shows Intel Corporation’s
Ocotillo, Arizona, campus, where the company has built special
solar parking structures that keep employees’ cars shaded from
100-degree summer temperatures and generate solar power for
on-campus use. The company has installed more than 8,000 solar
parking spots worldwide. New solar projects are planned or underway
at many Intel campuses, including those in Ocotillo; Chandler,
Arizona; India; Vietnam; and Malaysia. (Credit: Intel
Corporation)
Imagine enough solar panels to cover 52 regulation U.S. football
fields or 47 full-size soccer fields. The company now estimates it
has installed 3 million square feet of solar arrays at Intel sites
in nine nations. They harvest 33 million kilowatt hours of green
power, equivalent to the annual energy use of 3,700 U.S. homes. At
its campuses across the U.S., Europe and Asia, Intel uses energy
from the sun to heat and cool its buildings, provide lighting and
produce electricity for on-campus use. Today, 100 percent of the
energy Intel uses in its chip manufacturing business in the U.S.
and Europe comes from renewable sources: solar, hydro, wind. Intel
has for the past decade, according to the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, been the United States’ No. 1 or No. 2 corporate
buyer of green power.
To learn more about Intel’s global work in water and waste
recycling, energy conservation, reduction in greenhouse gas
emissions and environmental sustainability, see the 2017-2018 Intel
Corporate Responsibility Report, released today.
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Intel CorporationPatricia Oliverio-Lauderdale,
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