{"id":31,"date":"2007-11-11T08:46:29","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T16:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wind-energy\/nissan-expands-wind-farm\/"},"modified":"2018-12-01T14:37:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T22:37:13","slug":"nissan-expands-wind-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wind-energy\/nissan-expands-wind-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Nissan Expands Wind Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nissan usually gets overlooked as one of the automakers actively seeking solutions to clean up the environment. GM, DaimlerChrysler and BMW are heavily invested in hydrogen cars. A bunch of smaller automakers like Tesla, Phoenix Motors and Zap are heavily invested in electric cars.<\/p>\n<p>Nissan has made major investments in both of these areas as well with their X-Trail FCV hydrogen SUV and Altra EV and Hypermini EV concept. But, Nissan is also focused on providing clean energy at their automotive plants.<\/p>\n<p>As such, Nissan is expanding their wind farm in Sutherland, UK from six wind turbines to eight. The additional wind turbines will provide 6-percent of the plant\u2019s energy and cut CO2 emissions by 4,000 tons per year. The cost savings per year will be roughly $2 million.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s good to see many large companies wising up to the fact that wind energy can mean a windfall when it comes to both cleaning up the environment and padding their bottom lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nissan usually gets overlooked as one of the automakers actively seeking solutions to clean up the environment. GM, DaimlerChrysler and BMW are heavily invested in hydrogen cars. A bunch of smaller automakers like Tesla, Phoenix Motors and Zap are heavily invested in electric cars. Nissan has made major investments in both of these areas as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wind-energy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2011,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}