Decarbonization: Veolia North America Breaks Ground On New Solar Energy Panel Array at Waste Treatment Facility in Arkansas
2023年11月8日 - 12:02AM
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The array will produce over 250 million
kilowatt hours of electricity – enough to power 25,000 homes – and
offset carbon output by 105,000 tons over the next 25 years, making
it the only hazardous waste treatment facility in U.S. to be fully
energy self-sufficient
Veolia North America, the leading provider of environmental
solutions in the U.S. and Canada, has partnered with Today's Power,
Inc. to install a five megawatt (MW) single-axis tracking solar
energy system at its hazardous waste treatment facility in Gum
Springs, Arkansas. The solar array is expected to produce over 250
million kilowatt hours over the next quarter century, making the
Gum Springs plant the only one of its kind in the U.S. to capture
and generate as much power as it uses on an annual basis.
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Veolia North America and Today’s Power
Inc. leaders break ground at the Gum Springs location where the
solar project is being constructed. From left: Jayver Luque, Veolia
Gum Springs General Manager; Derek Dyson, Today’s Power President
and CEO; Colby Wells, CEO of South Central Electric Cooperative;
Britt Scheer, Veolia Gum Springs Director of Facility Affairs;
Learon Dalby, Today’s Power COO (Photo: Business Wire)
The solar facility will be operational by the fourth quarter of
2024. The electricity from the solar panels will be used to meet
the facility’s daily demands, with any excess going to feed the
region’s main grid, leading to net zero output.
The project will make significant contributions to
decarbonization, offsetting carbon emissions at the plant by an
estimated 105,000 tons over the next quarter century – the
equivalent of providing electricity for nearly 25,000 residential
homes. Along with the solar installation, Veolia is taking several
other initiatives to reduce its impact on the environment at Gum
Springs, including a plan to reforest nearly 1,500 acres
surrounding the property to sequester carbon emissions, provide
protection for local habitat and prevent erosion.
“This investment to bring clean, renewable power to our Gum
Springs operation is a reflection of Veolia North America’s
commitment to environmental sustainability and leading the
ecological transformation,” said Bob Cappadona, President
and CEO of VNA’s Environmental Solutions and Services division,
which oversees the Gum Springs project. “As a leading provider of
environmental services to communities across the U.S., we have an
obligation to ensure that the facilities we operate are equipped to
limit our impact on the environment as much as possible.”
"Today's Power, Inc. is pleased to work with Veolia and South
Central Electric Cooperative to provide this 5MW solar facility to
support their renewable energy needs. TPI will be building and
operating this facility, and we look forward to a continued strong
relationship with Veolia and South Central Electric Cooperative,"
said Today’s Power CEO/President Derek Dyson.
Veolia currently employs 136 people at the Gum Springs facility,
an increase from 61 employees when the company began operating in
Clark County in 2020. The company expects to employ over 200 people
at Gum Springs by 2025.
To make room for the new solar panels, Veolia recently cleared a
30-acre lot across the street from the facility. The cleared
timber, amounting to over 4,300 tons of mixed hardwood and pine
timber, was harvested for building materials which sequester
carbon.
About Veolia
Veolia Group aims to become the benchmark company for ecological
transformation. Present on five continents with nearly 213,000
employees, the Group designs and deploys useful, practical
solutions for the management of water, waste and energy that are
contributing to a radical turnaround of the current situation.
Through its three complementary activities, Veolia helps to develop
access to resources, to preserve available resources and to renew
them. In 2022, the Veolia group provided 111 million inhabitants
with drinking water and 97 million with sanitation, produced nearly
44 million megawatt hours and recovered 61 million tonnes of waste.
Veolia Environnement (Paris Euronext: VIE) achieved consolidated
revenue of 42.885 billion euros in 2022. www.veolia.com
About Veolia North America
A subsidiary of Veolia group, Veolia North America (VNA) offers
a full spectrum of water, waste and energy management services,
including water and wastewater treatment, commercial and hazardous
waste collection and disposal, energy consulting and resource
recovery. VNA helps commercial, industrial, healthcare, higher
education and municipality customers throughout North America.
Headquartered in Boston, Mass., Veolia North America has more than
10,000 employees working at more than 350 locations across the
continent. www.veolianorthamerica.com
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Veolia North America Carrie Griffiths
carrie.griffiths@veolia.com (781) 491-3117
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