Shiny Feeds, a New England-based startup, commissioned Solect Energy, a Maryland photo voltaic contractor, to construct a 300-kWDC photo voltaic system at its 25,000-sq-ft animal feed manufacturing plant in Berlin, Connecticut. The 625-panel venture will present one-third of the plant’s complete vitality.
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“We’re consistently on the lookout for methods to enhance our course of that not solely make enterprise sense but additionally help our sustainability mission and contribute to a more healthy setting,” mentioned Jonathan Fife, CEO of Shiny Feeds. “Our new photo voltaic PV system advances our mission whereas additionally offering energy to our operations and decreasing our month-to-month vitality prices. Solect was nice to work with all through the method, serving to us navigate engineering, native allowing and different obligatory approvals, ongoing upkeep and extra.”
Shiny Feeds makes use of synthetic intelligence and drying know-how at its Berlin facility to transform undesirable meals into an all-natural soy and corn substitute for animal feed. The corporate serves prospects throughout the Northeast, from animal feed suppliers to dairy farms, and diverts tens of hundreds of tons of wasted meals from the area’s waste stream every year.
“It was excellent working with Shiny Feeds to help the long-term sustainability of their operations,” mentioned Andreas Schmid, VP of enterprise improvement at Solect Vitality. “This photo voltaic venture will save them over $1.5 million in electrical energy prices over the 25-year lifetime of the system whereas contributing to their general sustainability efforts.”
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