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About 15 miles southeast of Denver, CO, the brand new IKEA in Centennial went live yesterday. What makes this particular Swedish furniture store branch so special is that it's powered by solar electricity. IKEA has five other stores in the U.S. that run on solar, but this is the first in Colorado. The 415,000 sq. ft. store is powered by a rooftop solar array that stretches 60,000 sq. feet. This makes it the largest array on a single-use commercial building in the Centennial State as well as the first in the country to have geothermal heating and cooling system for the building. IKEA is planning on its grand opening to the public on July 27th.
The rooftop solar array, that was built with 2,212 panels, will produce 740,000 kWh of electricity a year. Get this – that's enough to provide energy for 62 houses. IKEA officials stated that this will reduce at least 564 tons of carbon dioxide annually. The solar electric building contributes toward Colorado's renewable energy portfolio goal, which can be found on the DSIRE site.
IKEA's company mission is to geared toward environmentalism and makes products from renewable, recycled or reused materials. Some of the steps they have taken to become more earth-friendly are sourcing wood for furniture from certified responsibly managed forests, stating a mission to move toward making all of their buildings powered by renewable energy and even offering free shuttle buses to and from stores and bike loans in certain European countries. “IKEA has a never-ending job where most things still remain to be done. We constantly ask ourselves how what we are doing today can be done better tomorrow,” says Kelly Frieze, manager for the Centennial store. The other solar powered IKEA stores in the U.S. are located in Arizona, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania as well as 8 future installations in California. The California locations that will be powered by solar San Diego, Burbank, Costa Mesa, Covina, East Palo Alto, Emeryville, and West Sacramento.
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