Mercury Marine Companions With Alliant Vitality to Construct Photo voltaic

FOND DU LAC, Wisc., July 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Mercury Marine, a division of Brunswick Company (NYSE:BC), immediately introduced a partnership with Alliant Vitality to construct a 5-megawatt, 32-acre photo voltaic array in jap Fond du Lac County to advance the corporate’s sustainability initiatives and the area’s rising dedication to renewable power.  The Ledgeview Photo voltaic Venture, pending evaluate and approval by the Public Service Fee of Wisconsin within the coming months, is the primary to be developed below Alliant Vitality’s Renewable Vitality Companion program. The undertaking will offset 10% of the electrical energy Mercury makes use of on its Fond du Lac campus.

“This photo voltaic undertaking is nice for Mercury, the Fond du Lac group and the atmosphere,” mentioned Chris Drees, Mercury Marine president. “Our funding on this photo voltaic infrastructure, mixed with our different photo voltaic investments, will present clear, renewable power and propel us towards our objective to derive 50% of our electrical energy utilization from renewable sources by the top of 2030.”

The undertaking will embrace greater than 12,000 photo voltaic panels producing sufficient electrical energy to energy roughly 1,300 houses yearly. The array might be situated on privately-owned land in jap Fond du Lac County, south of Freeway 23 and simply east of County Highway UU.

Building on the undertaking is anticipated to begin in spring 2023 with operation to start in October 2023. The undertaking is being developed and constructed by OneEnergy Renewables out of their regional workplace in Madison.

The Ledgeview Photo voltaic Venture is the newest in a sequence of investments by Mercury to embrace emissions-free power, each at house and throughout the globe.  

In January 2021, Mercury made absolutely operational a rooftop array of 320 photovoltaic photo voltaic panels at its Fond du Lac world headquarters. The array was Mercury’s first within the U.S. and can generate sufficient energy to gentle a warehouse operation on the Fond du Lac campus for the subsequent 30 years.

Mercury launched its first photo voltaic undertaking in 2017 with the set up of a 2,000‑panel array on the firm’s European headquarters in Petit Rechain, Belgium. That photo voltaic array, mixed with improved insulation on the location, reduces the quantity of electrical energy the power attracts from the grid by 33%, thus decreasing the power’s utilities prices and enabling substantial use of fresh and
sustainable power.

Alliant Vitality’s Renewable Vitality Companion program helps industrial and industrial prospects obtain their sustainability objectives. Mercury will instantly profit from renewable technology with out having to commit assets to the planning, growth and operation of the undertaking.

“Alliant Vitality is proud to help Mercury Marine because it undertakes this transformative clear power initiative,” mentioned Barbara Tormaschy, senior vice chairman of sustainability and regulatory technique for Alliant Vitality. “The Renewable Vitality Companion program ensures our industrial prospects can offset their power use with secure, dependable, and clear electrical energy for many years to return.”

About Mercury Marine
Headquartered in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Mercury Marine is the world’s main producer of leisure marine propulsion engines. A division of Brunswick Company (NYSE: BC), Mercury gives engines, boats, providers, and elements for leisure, industrial, and authorities marine purposes. The corporate empowers boaters with merchandise which can be simple to make use of, extraordinarily dependable, and backed by probably the most devoted buyer assist on the earth. Mercury’s business‑main model portfolio contains Mercury outboard engines, Mercury MerCruiser sterndrive and inboard packages, Mercury propellers, Mercury inflatable boats, Mercury SmartCraft electronics, Land ‘N’ Sea marine elements distribution, and Mercury and Quicksilver elements and oils. Extra data is out there at www.MercuryMarine.com.