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General Motors and Detroit Renewable Energy have announced a renewable energy project to turn solid waste from the Detroit area into energy that will be used to heat and cool GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant.
The municipal solid waste will be turned into steam that will travel 8,300 feet through a pipe between Detroit Renewable Power and the Detroit-Hamtramck plant. When the project becomes operational next spring, 58 percent of the factory’s energy needs will come from renewable energy, GM says, adding that Detroit-Hamtramck will become the automaker’s top facility by percentage of renewable energy used.
“We have 107 landfill-free facilities across the globe that recycle or reuse their waste, with some of it turned into energy,” said Rob Threlkeld, GM’s global manager of renewable energy. “It made sense to explore this option with DRE at Detroit-Hamtramck, given their quality work in helping us manage our energy use at some of our other GM plants.”
GM vehicles currently built at the Detroit-Hamtramck plant include the Chevrolet Volt, the Cadillac ELR, the Chevrolet Malibu and the Chevrolet Impala.
“We have 107 landfill-free facilities across the globe that recycle or reuse their waste, with some of it turned into energy,” said Rob Threlkeld, GM’s global manager of renewable energy. “It made sense to explore this option with DRE at Detroit-Hamtramck, given their quality work in helping us manage our energy use at some of our other GM plants.”
GM vehicles currently built at the Detroit-Hamtramck plant include the Chevrolet Volt, the Cadillac ELR, the Chevrolet Malibu and the Chevrolet Impala.
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