COLOGNE, Germany – As Ford modernises everywhere, the company is looking to the future with a new solar power plant at its Almussafes manufacturing facilities in Valencia, Spain.

The photovoltaic area, that converts solar energy into electricity, is in a non-productive area of the plant covering two zones of solar panels, capable of producing the equivalent power every year to run 1,400 average homes.

In practice, this means that Ford’s Valencia factory will self-supply enough solar-based energy to cover two per cent of its annual needs.  Ford is looking to expand the areas of solar panels on further non-productive land targeting to reach a 10 per cent supply in the near future. The feasibility of potential future solar panel installations on the roofs of factory buildings is also being studied.

“As we move to an all-electric future and carbon neutrality across our manufacturing footprint at Ford, investments in innovations like this new solar power plant in Valencia creates the self-supply of renewable energy, which is an important contribution in our ambition to help build a better world,” said Stuart Southgate, director, Sustainable, Environmental and Safety Engineering, Ford of Europe.

Since January 1, 2022, all electric energy used by the Ford plant in Almussafes comes from renewable sources with all electric energy purchased to power Ford’s manufacturing facilities across Europe already 100 per cent-sourced from renewable energy.