Foodstuffs is building the country's largest solar panel farm to power its new North Island distribution centre. The distribution centre, which will serve all Pak 'n Save, New World and Four Square supermarkets in the North Island, will include the equivalent of 14 netball courts of solar panels. SUPPLIED Foodstuffs North Island is building a new distribution centre that will include New Zealand's largest solar panel array. The solar panels would generate enough electricity a year to drive 8.8 million kilometres in an electric car, Rowles said. "As a major electricity consumer, Foodstuffs has obvious purchasing leverage [but] the solar option still stacks up.

Source: Stuff January 26, 2020 20:37 UTC