Walmart DC 20% powered by wind turbine

Equipment

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Big box retailer Walmart on Monday officially launched its newly operational large-scale wind turbine at its distribution center in Red Bluff, Calif. The wind turbine is Walmart's first onsite industrial-sized wind turbine and will generate about 2.2 million kilowatt hours of power, providing up to 20 percent of the distribution center's annual electricity use. The General Electric SLE one-megawatt wind turbine is comparable in height to a typical 20-story buildi...

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