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Tesla Helps Sierra Nevada Brewing Make 'Green' Beer

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

randomerr writes:

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: 1) by morrowwm on Wednesday January 18 2017, @09:10PM

    by morrowwm (6478) on Wednesday January 18 2017, @09:10PM (#455688)

    That's hardly micro. I'd be tempted to call it a mini-turbine.

    It gives you an idea of the energy contained in fossil fuels (natural gas in this case) compared to PV.