Volvo Trucks Inaugurates Climate-Neutral Dealership Facility in Italy

Volvo Trucks has announced the inauguration of its first climate-neutral dealership facility in Verona, Italy.

The company claims that more energy will be produced than is needed to heat up the offices and workshops with the help of solar cells on the building’s roof.

Solar energy produced at the Volvo Truck Center in Verona will be supplied to the local power grid, thus generating an income from the electricity that the dealership facility itself does not need, the company said. In return, the dealership will only purchase green electricity from solar, wind-power or hydro-power sources. Heating of the premises will take place using fossil methane gas. However, the surplus electricity that the solar panels generate more than compensates for the carbon dioxide emissions caused by burning the methane gas, according to the company.

Marco Lazzoni, managing director of Volvo Trucks’s operations in Italy, said: “When we decided to build an entirely new facility, we wanted to make sure we integrated pro-environmental technologies from the ground up, and what is cleaner than solar energy.”