Advanced Green Technologies sets up largest privately owned solar project in Florida

• Barrette Outdoor Living has finished the setup of a roof solar array on their 200,000 square foot light weight aluminum fence and barrier production facility in Brooksville, Florida, making it the largest privately-owned solar project in Florida at the time of agreement.

The 2.35-MWDC system was made and mounted by Advanced Green Technologies (AGT) of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The range is comprised of 27 inverters, 6,354 solar panels and can creating more than 2,352,489 watts DC of power output which will certainly offset about 81% of the facility's electricity consumption.

The project is the result of the firm's interconnection agreement for solar manufacturing with Duke Energy Florida.

"Duke Energy Florida is proud to support Barrette Outdoor Living in satisfying its sustainability objectives. We understand our company consumers have an interest in progressing much more clean, solar power in Florida. This is an additional instance where we are working collaboratively with our customers to put the requirements of our customers and neighborhood first," claimed Catherine Stempien, Duke Energy Florida state head of state.

This is the 2nd Barrette Outdoor Living plant to go through a change to solar energy. In April 2019, the business finished setup of a 2.14-MWDC rooftop system at its 400,000 square foot facility in Galloway, New Jersey.

"As a leading manufacturer, we are proud of our commitment to build lasting and also environmentally-responsible techniques to aid eco-friendly our supply chain as well as decrease our carbon impact," claimed Jean desAutels, president of Barrette Outdoor Living.

The company will continue to advance their sustainable gains by functioning to apply photovoltaic panel programs throughout a few of their various other facilities over the next few years.

In addition to their environment-friendly structure efforts, Barrette Outdoor Living possesses and also operates GreenWays, a reusing program for pre- and also post-consumer inflexible PVC with facilities in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and Plant City, Florida. GreenWays partners with individual providers to manage the disposal of their scrap products in an environment-friendly way. The results of the program help reduce CO2 emissions, reduced greenhouse gases and also decrease landfill waste in neighborhood neighborhoods.