Given this past week’s lack of positive publicity surrounding the FedExFurniture/Jose Avila fracas [see this post], here’s some love for the shipping giant:
Last week FedEx became the proud owner of California’s largest corporate solar-power installation to date when they activated the photovoltaic cells covering the roof of their package processing hub at Oakland Int’l Airport. The 904 kW array covers nearly all of the building’s 81,000 square-foot roof and can meet roughly 80 percent of the facility’s energy needs. It was designed and built by California-based PowerLight Corp., using 300,000 solar cells from Japan’s Sharp Corp.