The need to go green and put minimal stress on the environment is making a solid base among the leading multinationals. As a testimony to this trend, Ford, an auto giant, recently incorporated a new wind turbine to reduce its dependence on conventional sources of electricity to improve the carbon footprint of the company. In fact, this incorporation of a new wind turbine at the Dagenham Diesel Engine Assembly line premises in the UK is meant to improve per year CO2 savings of the multinationals from 2,500 tons to 5,000 tons.
This would be made possible with the use of a new wind turbine. This new wind turbine is not the first one on Ford premises, but the third one of a series. This new third turbine was added after a new Duratoq TDCi Engine Line was added to the existing operations of the Ford Diesel Engine Assembly line at Dagenham. The installation of the new third turbine commenced on May 2011 with the laying of groundwork and it is fully operational now.
The three new wind turbines at the Dagenham Diesel Engine Assembly Line in the UK will enable the company to fully operate the plant operations by wind power only. An estimate of the power generated by the wind turbines can be assessed from the following statistics:
The two old wind turbines, operated together to generate 5.92 million Kwh of electricity- sufficient for 1,794 households. With the incorporation of the new third turbine, Ford will be able to generate total annual electricity to the extent of 11.4 million Kwh of electricity, almost double the amount of electricity generated before the third turbine.
Although the new turbine will almost double the electricity generation capacity of the Ford power plant, yet the two existing turbines are no less gigantic at 150 meters each. The use of other forms of renewable energy, such as solar energy, has been in use in other Ford plants across Europe. Two similar wind turbines can be found at Ford’s Genk plant in Belgium too.
Via: DailyTech
