CB Group spends US$3 million on solar project at four plants

 

Poultry producers, Caribbean Broilers Group has commissioned a US$3 million solar project to provide energy to four of its locations.

 

The addition of the new systems should reduce by 20 per cent, of the company's traditional energy needs.

 

Angella Rainford is the CEO of Soleco, the company which did the build out for CB Group at Free Town in Clarendon, Newport Mills in Kingston and Linstead and Old Harbour in St. Catherine. 

 

Free Town, the largest site, has a 1.09 megawatt peak. 

 

"We have Newport Mills, which is a feed mill, just along Marcus Garvey Drive, 501.05 kilowatt peak; Linstead...300.3 kilowatt peak; and Old Harbour, 183.15 kilowatt peak," she outlined.  

 

With a 2.1 megawatt peak total, Ms. Rainford touted the project as the "largest in Jamaica, and one of the largest, for sure, in the Caribbean region". 

 

CEO of CB Group Matthew Lyn said the company has invested in a number of other green projects. 

 

"We've invested in our own water facilities, we've invested in waste management facilities, we've even seeded small companies with investments to try and do better. Companies that are in this environmental space, selling environmentally friendly, disposable products. We choose solar, we choose renewables, we choose clean energy, and it's not just a safe money. It is for the impact it has on our environment," he noted. 

 

They were both speaking at the commissioning event at Peninsula Farms, Banbury, Linstead.