8 new_NG fueled generators should reduce outside power purchases
and improve reliability. Wayne Gerdes - CleanMPG - July 6, 2012
Last spring Toyota and British Gas threw the switch on a 17,000
solar panel site that is expected to save the company an
equivalent of 4.6 GWh – roughly the power needed to build 7,000
cars or just over 5% of the total at its Toyota Motor
Manufacturing United Kingdom (TMUK) plant site in Burnaston.
Today the company is prepping for something little more
ambitious for their production facilities in Japan and soon the
world. Toyota plans to install eight additional cogeneration gas
power generators this summer as it bids to reduce energy costs
and further enhance electricity supply-and-demand efficiency at
all TMC plants. In addition, the company is installing a new
Toyota Total Demand Management (TTDM) system for further
enhancing electricity supply-and-demand efficiency at all their
production facilities. These measures will enable Toyota to
reduce its electricity use by up to five