Raytheon Technologies : Collins Aerospace to install solar farm at Rockford facility
October 02, 2023 at 11:19 am EDT
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October 02, 2023
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ROCKFORD, Ill. (Oct. 2, 2023) - Collins Aerospace, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement with ENGIE Distributed Solar and Storage for the construction and operation of a 6.5-acre solar farm at the company's Rockford, Illinois Plant 6 site on Harrison Avenue. Under the agreement, Collins will pay ENGIE for the electricity produced by the project. ENGIE will retain the renewable electricity certificates and Collins will purchase replacement certificates from other qualified renewable projects.
"As part of Collins' Sustainability roadmap, we are committed not only to creating greener products for our customers, but also to making our own manufacturing operations more environmentally friendly," said Steve Kotso, executive director, Electric Power Systems at Collins. "Rockford provides a perfect case in point. In The Grid, our new $50 million lab, we're developing hybrid-electric propulsion systems to help future aircraft reduce emissions. At the same time, we're installing a solar farm to help supply roughly 10 percent of our Plant 6 facility's electricity needs annually. Overall, the agreement will reduce the site's greenhouse gas emissions by more than 1,500 metric tons of carbon dioxide each year."
Construction of the solar farm is slated to begin next spring and estimated to be complete later in 2024. Collins currently has solar arrays installed at 15 sites worldwide, avoiding more than 3,500 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year.
To learn more about RTX's sustainable aviation initiatives, please click here.
About Collins Aerospace
Collins Aerospace, an RTX business, is a leader in integrated and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Our 80,000 employees are dedicated to delivering future-focused technologies to advance sustainable and connected aviation, passenger safety and comfort, mission success, space exploration and more.
About RTX
RTX is the world's largest aerospace and defense company. With more than 180,000 global employees, we push the limits of technology and science to redefine how we connect and protect our world. Through industry-leading businesses - Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon - we are advancing aviation, engineering integrated defense systems for operational success, and developing next-generation technology solutions and manufacturing to help global customers address their most critical challenges. The company, with 2022 sales of $67 billion, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
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RTX Corporation (formerly Raytheon Technologies Corporation) is among the world's leading aeronautics and defense groups. Net sales (including intragroup) break down by sector of activity as follows:
- aerial navigation systems (29.3%; Collins Aerospace): manufacturing of electrical, electronical and mechanical systems for aircrafts (compressors, airplane control, etc.), civil and military helicopters, etc.;
- aeronautics (29.2%; Pratt & Whitney): design and manufacturing of civil and military aircraft engines, gas turbines, rocket engines and propulsion systems;
- missile systems, and integrated air and anti-missile defense systems (21.1%; Raytheon Missiles & Defense): design and manufacturing of weapons systems, missiles, munitions, projectiles, radars systems, control and monitoring equipment, communication, information, detection and imaging systems, etc. ;
- aerospace systems (20.4%; Raytheon Intelligence & Space): production of radars, airborne sensors, tactical airborne communications systems, software-defined radio solutions, advanced tactical networking systems, cryptographic systems, real-time sensor networking systems, etc.
Net sales break down by source of revenue between sales of products (76.7%) and services (24.3%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (86.3%), Europe (5.8%), Asia/Pacific (2.7%), North Africa and Middle East (0.2%) and other (5%).
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