The Anheuser-Busch brewery on U.S. 1-9 dates to 1951, and the company is a century older than that. But behind the Newark, N.J., facility's redbrick walls lies plenty of new technology--alongside the traditional beechwood aging tanks, of course.
The 3.2 million-square-foot brewery now gets up to 5% of its electricity from 3,000 photovoltaic solar panels covering 65,000 square feet of its massive roof. The array produces a maximum of 530 kilowatts of power--enough for 62 average New Jersey homes.
That's not all. Construction is underway to roughly double the size of the power system at the Anheuser-Busch InBev (BUD, ABI.BT) facility in a deal with Orion Energy Systems (OESX), the builder and proprietor of the solar rig.
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