The top corporate
solar users in the United States have now installed more than 1 gigawatt (GW) of solar
capacity, enough to power 193,000 homes. These Fortune 500 companies have installed solar at nearly 2,000 individual installations nationwide. The top 10 corporate users are compiled in a slideshow below, and demonstrate that America’s top brands are choosing to go solar at an impressive rate.
Highlights
- Target takes top spot, besting Walmart for first time
- 1)Target: 147.5 MW 2)Walmart: 145 MW 3) Prologis: 108 MW
- Walmart had taken the top spot in each of the last 4 reports
- Report grows to cover 1,092 MW across 1,947 installations
- Up from 907 MW across 1,686 installations in 2016
- These systems collectively produce 1.5 million MWh annually
- Equivalent to the electricity needed to power 193,000 homes
- Offsets 1.1 million metric tons of CO2 emissions each year
- Through the first 3 quarters of 2016, companies in this report installed 142 MW
- Well ahead of the 130 MW installed in all of 2015
