GLP, a global business builder, owner, developer and operator of logistics real estate, digital infrastructure, renewable-energy and related technologies, has announced that GLP Clean Energy, its renewable-energy business in Europe, has completed a new installation of a rooftop solar PV system at its logistics center in Belfeld, in the Netherlands.
GLP’s 38,000-square-meter (409,028-square-foot) Venlo Belfeld logistics center has been equipped with 8,000 solar panels across its roof, with 4.6 megawatts-peak of power-generation capacity that will supply the annual equivalent of 1,145 Dutch households. The project is expected to save around 1,400 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions per year.
The entire electricity output of approximately 4,200 megawatt-hours per year will be sold to Scholt Energy, a Dutch independent energy supplier.
“The integration of renewable-energy solutions into logistics assets is essential to enabling our sector to meet its net