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Photovoltaics

Shafer Vineyards

We're proud to have Shafer Vineyards as a customer of GE's photovoltaic technology. See how the sun is growing a business.

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• Customer stories

  GE Energy's solar electric power systems were recently installed by Premier Power at Shafer Vineyards in Napa, CA, making it the first winery in the wine country of Napa and Sonoma counties to move to 100 percent solar power.

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• Interview with Doug Shafer

  

  Doug Shafer, owner and operator of Shafer Vineyards discusses how photovoltaics have changed his growing business.

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  • GE's installed photovoltaic systems globally generate enough electricity each year to power approximately 12,000 homes, and will displace carbon dioxide emissions equal to:
    
    -The amount of carbon dioxide sequestered by more than 22,000 acres of forest
    
    -Driving 8,000 passenger cars one time around the world
  • If the U.S. Department of Energy's "Million Solar Roofs Initiative" were powered by GE's PV-165 modules it would result in the following reduction in emissions each year:
    
    -Approximately 2 million fewer tons of carbon dioxide emissions, which is equivalent to the carbon dioxide sequestered by more than 493,000 acres of forest or to driving more than 181,000 cars one time around the world
    
    -Approximately 15,000 fewer tons of acid rain-causing sulfur dioxide emissions
    
    -Approximately 4,200 fewer tons of smog-forming nitrous oxide emissions