Robertet expands green initiatives with solar energy
Robertet Flavors, the U.S.-based flavors division of the global Robertet Group, selected GeoPeak Energy LLC to design, install and service a high-efficiency solar energy system at its flavors manufacturing facility in Piscataway, N.J. The roof-mounted solar panels will span 115,000 square feet and will be operational by the end of 2011.
Fourteen percent of the manufacturing plant’s power will be provided by this system, which will reduce the site’s annual carbon dioxide emissions by more than 1.1 million pounds — the equivalent of planting 33,665 trees or the conservation of 1.5 million gallons of gasoline over the system’s lifetime, the company says.