Leading home furnishings retailer IKEA Group plans to install 39,000 photovoltaic solar panels within its portfolio of UK stores before March 2012.
The move follows its purchase of a wind farm in Aberdeenshire in Scotland, which boasts power of 12.3 megawatts and adds to its existing collection of wind farms in Denmark, Germany and France.
The solar panels will have a total capacity of 2.1 megawatts and be fitted on the roofs of 10 stores, contributing 5 per cent of each store's electricity.
"As part of our global IKEA Goes Renewable programme, we are committed to heavily investing in making IKEA buildings more energy efficient and use more renewable energy," said IKEA Group chief sustainability officer Steve Howard.
"For example, our most recently built stores [in the British Isles] in Coventry, Southampton and Dublin have been designed to incorporate measures that will have a major impact on these areas, including geothermal heating and cooling systems, biomass boilers and improved insulation.”
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IKEA takes green drive further with solar panels
Post by Debra Jamieson on Aug 2, 2011 in Industry News
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