General Motors, with a goal to be completely fossil fuel free by 2050, has announced a major partnership with DTE Energy in Michigan. The automaker will purchase 300,000-megawatt hours worth of energy from the Michigan utility. The figure is enough power to provide electricity to 30,000 homes.
The Tuesday announcement said the wind power agreement comes from an agreement with DTE’s MIGreenPower program, which allows DTE customers to source up to 100 percent of their energy usage from renewable sources. The wind energy will provide GM with enough power to run the Warren Technical Center and its Renaissance Center headquarters completely on renewable sources.
“Our partnership with DTE Energy will help us get closer to achieving our goal of powering all our operations in Michigan with 100 percent clean energy,” Rob Threlkeld, global manager of Sustainable Energy and Supply Reliability for General Motors. “It helps demonstrate that local and regional industry partnerships are paramount to GM’s clean energy future, where renewable sources will account for 100 percent of our global energy footprint by 2050.”
GM will receive the wind energy as soon as the latest projects come online, according to the announcement, as DTE expands its renewable energy commitment to $2 billion worth of investment. The funds will see more wind and solar plants come online by 2024.
Total, GM receives 1.71 terawatt hours worth of clean energy across North America—more than any other automaker in the region and enough to power 175,000 homes.
Today, GM sources 20 percent of its global energy needs from renewable sources, a major milestone towards ridding itself of fossil fuels entirely. GM said it doesn’t just want to put zero-emission cars on the road in the years to come, but manufacture, engineer, and design them responsibly.
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Great, GM fires workers in Michigan and ships their jobs overseas but, hey, it builds turbines!
So sad these days for GM. GM builds a couple of useless turbines, meanwhile companies like Fiat Chrysler are investing $4.5 billion in the U.S. in plants and 6,500 high-paying jobs.
Just think of all the butterflies and flowers that GM is saving. LOL.
Pretty soon GM is going to make an announcement when they paint one of their restrooms in their plants. Most companies do not do a PR tour the way Machete Mary did last week for what amounts to token investments at their plants. GM is reaching for straws right now since their reputation is so damaged and you have complete buffoons running the place.
But the birds the birds! Yes lets build and pour money into land killing eyesores as we are culling our sedan lineup and destroying thousands of lives. The way utter-less Mary steers GM makes me wonder how GM is still doing as well as they are on Wall Street.
Bottom line, Wall Street does not care about anything long term. GM is like a tissue. Looks nice and is useful until it is used up. When market share plummets, Barra’s unicorn vision blows up, and perhaps if there is a nice long strike or two, Wall Street will drop GM faster than a hot potato.
GM is following the Chrysler strategic model of the 1970s. Cull product, cheapen the product you have coming out, overcharge, cut talent, and starve plants of new investment in order to give the money to the shareholders to let Wall Street think you are doing well. We all saw how that worked out for Chrysler at the time.