Cement plant looks to sun
Pueblo Chieftain
Holcim's Portland cement plant is the first in the United States to use solar panels to help provide power to the plant, company officials say.
Project Manager Ryan Trujillo said after a year and a half of planning and three months of installation, the solar panels are providing power to a substation at the plant and the plant consumes all the energy the panels can produce.
A total of 528 solar panels produce an estimated 156,201 kilowatts of power each hour — enough to power the administrative offices or the equivalent of the power consumed by 14 homes.
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