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posted by on Wednesday January 18 2017, @11:59AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-in-time-for-st-patrick's-day dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 18 2017, @08:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 18 2017, @08:07PM (#455667)

    Lithium is a safe, non-toxic, renewable, and sustainable energy storage resource, right?