Crayola partners with Pennsylvania utilities on 15-acre solar farm

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Crayola partners with Pennsylvania utilities on 15-acre solar farm

Tags: energy management, green manufacturing

For more than a century, Crayola has made every color under the sun. Soon, the sun will make those colors when a 15-acre solar farm begins generating electricity this year at the company’s Forks Township headquarters in Pennsylvania. Construction on the solar project started late last year during a colorful ground-breaking ceremony.

Crayola officials and employees, along with partners PPL Corporation of Allentown and UGI Energy Services Inc., of Reading, were joined by Pa. Department of Environmental Protection Secretary John Hanger and state and local elected officials who flanked a giant sun and put colorful shovels to soil to commence construction. When complete, more than 26,000 fixed photovoltaic solar panels will convert sunlight into electricity, generating 1.9 megawatts of electrical power.

The solar facility will provide the energy required to make 1 billion of the 3 billion Crayola crayons the company makes each year. Generating the same amount of electricity with fossil fuels would produce about 1,900 tons of greenhouse gases per year. This reduction of greenhouse emissions is the equivalent of planting 400 acres of pine forest and removing 325 cars from the road.

“Crayola has long been committed to environmental stewardship because it’s especially important to us that today’s kids have a healthy environment for their creative tomorrows,” said Peter Ruggiero, executive vice president of global operations. “Our solar project is one of many ways Crayola is incorporating social and environmental responsibility into our business to benefit our company, community and consumers.”

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[wake.up.america]

1. Color me happy.

[RushIsRot]

2. Color them green. n/t

[sheshe2]

3. The Color of our Future

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“Our solar project is one of many ways Crayola is incorporating social and environmental responsibility into our business to benefit our company, community and consumers.”

[NoOneMan]

4. How many tons of carbon will it take to make this thing?