DTE Energy will fund the project, which will provide employees with 360 covered parking spaces and 30 charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles such as the Ford Fusion Energi.
The solar canopy will have a capacity of 1.04MW – enough to power 158 average-sized homes.
It will be the second-largest solar carport in the US Midwest, after a 1.1MW installation at the Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio, and it will reduce the amount of electricity Ford pulls from the grid to run its offices.
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