US broadband operator Verizon will put $40 million into its sustainability targets to help expand the onsite green energy program it launched last year. The firm will install 10.2 MW of solar power systems at eight facilities spanning across five states.
The investment almost doubles the amount of renewable energy power generated by solar systems installed at six Verizon plants in 2013. The company is on target to deploy upward of 25 MW of green energy upon completion of the new solar projects with the system will generate enough green energy to power more than 8,500 homes each year.
With this announcement, Verizon is on track to become the No. 1 solar-power producer among all US communications companies, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association, the US trade association for companies that research, manufacture, distribute, finance, and build solar projects domestically and abroad.
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