GM's Solar Rooftop

Posted by Big Gav in gm, solar power, solar roof, spain

Inhabitat reports that GM is building the World’s Largest Rooftop Solar Power Station in Spain.

A few years ago, if you were to say that the largest rooftop solar panel was going to be installed in a car manufacturing plant we’d probably say that you were, well, bonkers. If you had mentioned that not only would this be true, but that it would be installed in the roof of a General Motors plant, we’d have gladly tried to sell you a bridge. Surprisingly though you’d have been correct. Last week General Motors announced that its Zaragoza plant in Spain will be fitted with the world’s largest rooftop solar power station.

Granted, we didn’t quite know that GM already owns two of the largest solar power stations in the United States, but those are small change compared to the installation that will be undertaken in its European factory. Under Spanish skies, GM plans to install 85,000 solar panels on top of its factory covering over 2 million square feet. These will provide over 10 megawatts of power to both the station (responsible for over 480,000 vehicles) and the local power grid.

2 comments

Anonymous says 11:23 AM

You could just not build the cars that soon won't have available fuel.

Big Gav says 7:39 PM

Or you could switch to manufacturing hybrid vehicles in the next couple of years, and then to fully electric vehicles within a decade - and by and large maintain your business.

I think GM has a strong preference for this option over the one you are proposing.