Eco Factor: Adobe installs wind turbines for renewable energy at its headquarters.
Adobe’s San Jose headquarters includes three office towers that have received three LEED Platinum certifications. The company’s green efforts have reduced its indoor water use by 22%, landscape water use by 76%, electricity use by 35% and natural gas by 41%. The company is now trying to even better its green credentials by installing 20 Windspire vertical axis wind turbines to provide renewable energy.
The turbines have been installed on the sixth floor, where winds can get to about 14mph. The company estimates that each of these vertical axis wind turbines will generate 2500KWh of renewable energy annually, and collectively they can generate enough energy to power about five American homes. Costing somewhere between $5000 and $12,000, the turbine weighs 650 pounds and stand four feet wide and 30 feet tall.
Via: Jetson Green
