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ALTERNATI VE ENERGY alternative energy. We took advantage of those incentives in 2003 by putting together the large photovoltaic solar cell at our headquarters. This type of practice is in the DNA of our company.” Solar power also is being used by FritoLay, a division of PepsiCo, which recently installed a solar electric power system on the roof of its Arizona Service Center, the company’s largest U.S. distribution center. The 201-kilowatt system consists of more than 1,000 Kyocera high-output 200-watt photovoltaic (PV) modules, making it the largest business-owned PV system in Arizona. PV is a solar power technology that uses solar cells or solar Pressure and Vacuum Conveying Major, Minor and Micro Ingredient Feeding & Weighing Systems Railcar Loading and Unloading CLEANFEED® Automatic Glue Feed System Bulk Bag Unloading Operational challenges? we specialize in overcoming them. Cookie-cutter solutions over a broad range of applications? not with ALL-CON WORLD SYSTEMS, INC. As both a systems integrator and a manufacturer of automated, integrated bulk handling systems, you can count on us to provide systems that are custom-tailored to your particular operation. With an ALL-CON system you will see substantially increased production efficiency and significant savings in downtime, material costs, energy costs and manual labor. Share your challenges with us and we’ll share solutions with you. photovoltaic arrays to convert light from the sun directly into electricity. “As different types of renewable energy become available to us – both from a technical point of view and a business point of view – we implement them,” says Dave Haft, group vice president of sustainability and productivity at Frito-Lay (www.fritolay.com). “The photovoltaic system in Arizona, which by the way is the largest privately owned system in the state of Arizona, is the seventh Frito-Lay distribution center to have a photovoltaic electrical generating system.” Frito-Lay’s use of solar power will produce roughly 350,000 kilowatt hours of electricity annually and will supply power directly to Frito-Lay’s electrical loads to meet a portion of the facility’s daytime energy needs. The installation was facilitated in part by the Arizona utility APS and its Solar Partners Incentive Program, which provides ﬁnancial incentives to customers who add PV solar systems or solar water heaters to their homes or businesses. The system was designed and installed by American Solar Electric, a Scottsdale, Ariz., ﬁrm specializing in photovoltaic power systems. The PV system was engineered to produce year-round energy production through elevated, angled panels above the rooftop deck. Biofuels are a gas The use of biodiesel, a renewable fuel resource that greatly reduces tailpipe pollution compared to regular diesel, as well as other types of biofuels are among the most popular alternative energy sources being used in the food processing industry. Kettle also is committed to the use of biodiesel. According to Green, all of the company’s waste cooking oil is processed into biodiesel by SeQuential Paciﬁc Biofuels near Kettle’s headquarters in Salem. Kettle Foods operates three company cars plus a local delivery truck on biodiesel, resulting in an annual reduction of eight tons of CO2 emissions. Tyson Foods also uses biodiesel. The food giant is using the alternative fuel to power its truck ﬂeet in Scanton, Ark. “We have been running biodiesel for a long time in our ﬂeet, so we have a lot of experience with it,” says Bob Ames, senior director of commercializationforTysonRenewableEnergy (www.tyson.com/renewableenergy). WWW.FOODPROCESSING.COM See us on the web www.all-con.com Call us at 1-302-628-3380 50 • FOOD PROCESSING JANUARY 2008 http://www.fritolay.com http://www.all-con.com http://www.all-con.com http://www.tyson.com/renewableenergy http://www.foodprocessing.com

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