The Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is using a bunch of Tesla batteries, along with solar power and a microturbine generator, to help make beer brewing more environmentally friendly at its Chico, California facility.
The company has installed a 1MWh Tesla Powerpack battery system, taking power from an existing 10,751-panel, two-megawatt solar installation — the largest owned by any US brewery — and a two megawatt microturbine. In all, the setup allows Sierra Nevada to offset around 20 percent of its yearly electricity use.
[...] The beer-brewing process uses a lot of electricity, heating and cooling batches of water and beer over several weeks of production. Big industrial operations like Sierra Nevada pay for electricity both on overall use as well as peak usage over the course of a month — and anything companies can do to reduce that peak use can result in significant cost savings.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 18 2017, @01:50PM
That CO2 is released from the malt sugar; it just gets bound up again in new grains, making the process neutral.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday January 18 2017, @10:08PM
See, that only works if you assume barren fields if beer were not being made. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Anything grown there not destined to be fermented would be greener.
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