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Nation’s largest single-story building swaps natural gas for waste wood
DETROIT – Imagine heating a building covering 22 Manhattan city blocks or 120 football fields and you understand the task faced by the Metrolina Greenhouses. Helping Metrolina convert its heat source from natural gas to renewable biomass is part of Chevrolet’s commitment to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
As seen in the video, Metrolina displaces fossil fuel by using waste wood from land clearing as an energy source in its Huntersville, N.C. operation. Metrolina’s greenhouse is the largest single-story structure in the United States.
Metrolina anticipates it will use approximately 36,000 tons of waste wood each year.
“As a large-scale operation delivering approximately 70 million plants a year, we’re committed to activities like this that help us become a greener greenhouse,” said Abe VanWingerden, co-CEO of Metrolina Greenhouses. “When our biomass boilers are burning these wood chips, you can’t even tell they’re running.”