VOLVO: CARBON DIOXIDE-FREE MANUFACTURING PLANT
October 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLSWEDISH car and truck giant Volvo has announced it will make its lorry manufacturing plant in the Gothenburg suburb of Tuve, southern Sweden, the first in the world to operate without generating carbon dioxide. Its power supply will be based from 2007 on five large wind power generators and a new biofuel factory next to the assembly unit. They are to be operated by regional utility Göteborg Energi and the five wind plants alone will increase Sweden's wind-power electricity by 4%. When the plant does not fully utilise this green electricity and ...
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