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| Herman Miller reached a goal of obtaining all its global electricity — all 8 million kilowatts annually — from renewable energy sources. At Herman Miller, the move to using electricity generated by 100 percent renewable sources puts the company among a handful of corporations in the world. About 30 percent of Zeeland-based Herman Miller’s electricity comes from wind energy, including power from the 32-turbine Harvest Wind Farm in Huron County. Herman Miller buys the power generated at the wind farm from Wolverine Power Cooperative. Herman Miller was among the early clients for the two-year-old wind farm, Senior Energy Manager Jerry Akers said. “We told Wolverine we were in the market and if they built it, we’d buy it,” Akers said. The remaining 70 percent of Herman Miller’s electricity comes from biomass sources — a technology the company is examining to meets its overall goal of having a zero operational footprint by 2020. Meeting that goal means finding new ways to generate steam to heat facilities and identifying replacement fuels for its vehicle fleet. Achieving the overall goal will prove harder because there are not as many options to replace natural gas for heating as there are for renewable energy sources to generate electricity, but Akers expects that to change. “There’s new technologies coming out,” he said. Among the possibilities Herman Miller is examining is installing biomass generators at its facilities. “There are options out there. We just need to work on some of the technologies and pick one,” Akers said. | ||
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