Solar and Wind Strategies for Renewable and Sustainable Energy

How Taylor Farms foresaw solar and wind as the path to its energy independence.

March 12, 2020

Taylor Farms started investing in renewable, alternative energy back in 2012. The brand is currently seeing a positive payoff for its year-over-year efforts in both cost savings and recognition as a green energy leader in the industry.

Hormel Foods signs virtual power purchase agreement for wind power

The new wind farm will be capable of 74 MW of power and an estimated 349,000 MWh of electricity each year.

April 18, 2019

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Hormel Foods Corp., Austin, Minn., announced a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) for wind energy.

Smithfield Foods, United Wind announce 3MW WindLease agreement

The partnership will provide Smithfield with long-term renewable energy for its agricultural operations and contribute to its goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 25% by 2025.

March 20, 2019

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Smithfield Foods, Inc., Smithfield, Va., signed an agreement with United Wind, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based distributed wind energy developer, to power dozens of Smithfield hog farms in Colorado with on-site wind energy.

J. M. Smucker announces renewable energy agreement

Beginning in 2020, the wind energy produced from the Plum Creek project will address approximately 50% of Smucker's total electricity use.

August 6, 2018

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The J. M. Smucker Co., Orrville, Ohio, entered into a long-term power purchase agreement with Lincoln Clean Energy (LCE), Chicago, for 60 megawatts (MW) of the utility-scale 230 MW Plum Creek Wind Project in Wayne County, Neb.

BNSF Logistics, Tri Global Energy Join Forces to Power New Wind Energy Logistics Center

March 7, 2014

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BNSF Logistics (BNSFL), Flower Mound, Texas, and Tri Global Energy (TGE), Dallas, Texas, will align resources, market knowledge and industry relationships to support BNSFL’s development of their West Texas Wind Energy Logistics Center.

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Check out the March 2020 edition of Refrigerated & Frozen Foods: Top 150 Frozen Foods Processors Report, 30th Anniversary Coverage, food safety, packaging equipment, and much more!

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