Volvo集團21日宣佈，其位於比利時根特的重型卡車工廠，已成為全球首座在生產過程中無排放二氧化碳的汽車製造廠。工廠、發電廠和汽車所排放的二氧化碳在大氣中形成覆蓋層，讓太陽的熱度停留在地球無法散去，進而導致全球暖化。
根特重型卡車工廠平均每年生產約35000輛卡車，過去以天然氣為主要能源，現在則擁有3座風力發電廠，可供應工廠一半的電力需求。
其餘的電力則來自於比利時能源公司Electrabel所供應的認證綠色能源。
新的粒狀燃料生物能源發電廠供應根特製造廠70%的暖氣需求，而燃燒過程中需要的能源則來自於屋頂上的太陽能電池。剩餘30%的能源則是由燃燒生質油的燃油鍋爐所提供。
The Volvo Trucks' plant in Ghent, Belgium has become the first vehicle manufacturing plant in the world that operates without emitting any carbon dioxide, CO2, the Volvo Group announced Friday. The gas contributes to global warming as emissions from factories, power plants and motor vehicles form an atmospheric blanket, trapping the Sun's heat close to the planet.
The Ghent trucks plant, which produces about 35,000 trucks a year, in past depended on natural gas for power. Now the factory has three wind power generating stations on the site, which will cover half of the plant's electricity requirements.
The remaining electricity consists of certified green energy supplied by the Belgian energy company Electrabel.
A new pellet-fired biomass plant supplies 70 percent of the heating requirements for the Ghent plant and energy for the combustion process is provided by solar cells on the roof.
The remaining 30 percent is provided by an oil-fired boiler that was converted to burn bio oil.
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