Sunnyland Mills Uses Solar Power
The display below represents the real-time electricity production by Sunnyland's solar panels.
Using solar energy to reduce our environmental footprint
In 2007, we invested in a solar “farm” on vacant land next to our building. To celebrate our 72nd year in business, and with the help of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s California Solar Initiative, we decided to go back to our roots of using solar power to produce our products. For the first 20 years of operation, Sunnyland Mills used the sun to dry the cooked wheat berries. We now use the sun to generate 171,216 kilowatts of power annually to help run our plant. By doing this, we are reducing the amount of Carbon Dioxide — CO2, Nitrous Oxide and Sulphur Dioxide from going into the atmosphere.
Other environmentally friendly things we do:
- We use skylights in our plant to reduce lighting.
- We use recyclable products to package our products.
- We treat our effluent to remove most of the starch in our waste water.
- We sell our by-products for animal feed.
- We use recycled pallets to ship our products.
- We recycle our waste paper and plastic.
- We transport our products by rail whenever possible.
- We purchase our raw products by rail whenever possible.
