Timberland Unveils Commercial PV System

Solar generated power will be the primary source of electricity at Timberland’s Ontario, California distribution center following the completion of a solar panel installation. Timberland’s distribution center will be the first facility in California’s Inland Empire to generate the majority of power from a solar panel and is one of the top 50 largest solar installations in the world. The unveiling of the solar panel kicks-off Timberland’s global Earth Day celebration taking place in 26 countries around the world. According to the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, this last decade was the hottest in the past 150 years because of global warming. The rise in temperatures has, for the most part, been attributed to increased emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities, including industrial processes. The Timberland solar panel will significantly reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions created by the Ontario distribution center by an estimated 480,000 pounds of carbon emissions annually, therefore decreasing its dependency on electricity currently generated by fossil fuels and other sources. “We are fully committed to reducing our environmental impact and decreasing dependency on natural resources by finding alternative ways to produce energy,” said Jeffrey Swartz, Timberland’s President and CEO. “The solar panel […]

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