Striving towards its goal to reach 100 percent renewable energy by 2050, General Motors announced it would buy 200 megawatts of wind energy from Midwest-based farms to help power its factories throughout Ohio and Indiana. MLive reports that the wind farms, based in Ohio and Illinois, are expected to have its turbines online by the end of the year which will power 20 percent of the Detroit-based automaker’s global electricity use. GM plants set to use the 100 percent renewable energy are the ones responsible for vehicles such as the Chevy Cruze, Silverado and GMC Sierra, the automaker reports in a news release. Specific GM plants connected to the new source of renewable energy are the Fort Wayne Assembly, Marion Metal Center, Bedford Casting, Lordstown Assembly, Defiance Casting Operations, Parma Metal Center and the Toledo Transmission plants.
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