I rapped at you last year on this blog and my Eco-Hearth blog about New Belgium beer (brewers of Fat Tire and Sunshine Wheat) and its big solar plans. The company’s new solar array went online yesterday. It is the biggest privately owned solar plant in the state, but it also demonstrates the difficulties of the renewable transition. A 200 KW system only supplies 16 percent of the brewery’s peak electric load and three percent of its total energy use. It also is not able to store the power, so it will only be used in real time. This isn’t going to be easy. I need a beer.
