The Mercedes-Benz Group wants to generate 15 percent of its annual electricity requirements with wind energy.
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Hamburg Mercedes-Benz is increasing the proportion of regeneratively generated electricity and investing in a new wind farm in Emsland. A double-digit number of wind turbines are to be set up by the middle of the decade on a test site that the car manufacturer has been operating there for some time, as the company announced on Monday.
With a system output of more than 100 megawatts, the Mercedes-Benz Group intends to cover more than 15 percent of its annual electricity requirements in Germany. The project, with a volume in the three-digit million range, is to be implemented by a partner from whom Mercedes obtains the electricity. Mercedes did not name the partner.
Mercedes has been using the approximately 800 hectare site in Papenburg for research and development purposes since 1998. In addition to the wind farm, the installation of photovoltaic systems is also being examined there.
Mercedes-Benz already obtains electricity from CO2-free sources from the energy suppliers Enovos and Statkraft. By 2030, the carmaker wants to cover more than 70 percent of its energy requirements in production with renewable energies.
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