LAWRENCEVILLE, Ill. (WTWO/WAWV) – A ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday celebrated the completion of a new solar farm, a project of Toyota Boshoku Illinois.
The solar farm will power Toyota Boshoku Illinois’ plant in Lawrenceville. Toyota Boshoku America’s Vice President of Production Control, Ryan Hunt, said there are about 9,700 solar panels that will generate about 85% of the energy the plant uses. He said it’s exciting to celebrate the launch of the project.
“It’s pretty incredible. I started with this project,” said Hunt. “I was actually involved from the very beginning, so I’ve seen it kind of from its infancy. We started out thinking about doing a rooftop farm, which was going to be a lot less power, and started thinking from the beginning, how do we do more? So, identified if we put a land base, a ground-mounted system, we could do about 85% of the plant’s energy.”
Hunt thanked all of the plant’s partners on this project. He added that the plan is to have the solar farm start generating power either Thursday or Friday of this week.
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