Brewery Solar Panels

Cbs4 breckenridge brewery is harnessing the sun in colorado to help brew beer.

Brewery solar panels. The world s largest brewer ab inbev together with the german company specialized in the renewables sector baywa r e announced a record corporate solar. The palate is a soft balance of malt caramel wheat malt providing a clean refreshing finish ideal for drinking al fresco. The brewery in littleton. Bottles on panels ab inbev and baywa r e.

Prior to expanding into a large new brewhouse and taproom space in stowe vermont the alchemist built two arrays at their waterbury location that covered over 100 of their electricity needs. Three arrays of panels covering the brewery s 11 000 square foot roof capture solar energy throughout the day. In november 2016 however heineken seriously upgraded the rooftop solar project on their massafra brewery in italy which now sports 13 000 solar panels. Or anderson valley brewing company who that same year outfitted their brewery with a visionary 125 kw system comprised of 768 solar panels.

A crew from jordan solar in ronan is in the final stages of wiring the project on top of the brewery. The brewery in littleton installed nearly 800 solar panels this week. Southern brewing co another athens based brewer installed solar powered street lamps in its parking lot in the spring said brian roth sbc co founder. Brewery the panels not only create energy they also absorb thermal heat.

Being local businesses with a focus on an artisanal way of brewing beer with natural ingredients the concept of striving for energy independence and a greener way of. In portland maine allagash brewing installed a solar system in 2016 with 114 panels that generate around 118 mw of energy. Combined these 6 plants amount to a portfolio of over 9 3mw of solar capacity. With a total capacity of 3 3mw this is the largest solar pv project installed on a beer brewery worldwide.

Like the left hand brewing company in colorado who installed a modest 4 8 kw solar array as early as 2006. The first beer makers to embrace solar power were the little ones. We re a pretty big craft brewery so the total wattage from our array honestly covers a small part of our electricity needs but it s part of a larger picture says facilities manager luke truman. A favorite brewery in the northeast including for many at energysage the alchemist actually has three separate solar arrays.

The brewer plans to open another taproom.