Uploaded on 2020-03-08 by Steve Reeves

S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. is an American multinational, privately held manufacturer of household cleaning supplies and other consumer chemicals based in Racine, Wisconsin… and has reduced draw from the grid by using reusable energy. (Racine, Wisconsin is where I live.) As an example… one of S.C. Johnson’s largest manufacturing plant worldwide normally requires no outside electrical energy to operate. The plant’s biggest source of electricity is methane gas from the nearby landfill. Since the mid-2000s, S.C. Johnson has been burning the methane collected in two large co-generation turbines to supply about 85 percent of manufacturing plants electrical needs. S.C. Johnson took the next big step toward meeting the additional energy needs in December of 2012 when it constructed two new 415-foot wind turbines. They are the largest company-owned wind turbine manufacturing project in the Midwest United States. In their first year of operation, S.C. Johnson stated the turbines produced nearly 8 million kilowatts of electricity, or enough to power about 700 homes for a year. The turbines now supply the additional 15 percent of the manufacturing plants electrical needs.