One of the world's biggest names in beer, MillerCoors, is now helping you drink (environmentally) responsibly by harnessing the sun to power its brews. MillerCoors has partnered with SolarCity to create the nation's largest solar installation at a brewery.

Inaugurated during a ribbon cutting ceremony held yesterday, t he installation is expected to produce enough energy to brew more than 7 million cases of beer a year, including favorites such as Coors Light, Miller Lite and Miller High Life. Over 10,000 groundmount panels were fitted across ten acres of the famous brewery's land in Irwindale, California, northeast of Los Angeles.

The 3.2 megawatt project provides significant environmental benefits to the region, producing enough clean energy over its lifetime to offset the 144 million pounds of carbon , the equivalent of taking more than 12,000 cars off the road. It will also save nearly 672 million gallons of water from being used to produce electricity from fossil fuel or nuclear energy - conservation that's especially important to California as the state's historic drought extends into 2015.*

MillerCoors now has the biggest brewery solar installation in America - and solar power never tasted so good. 

Businesses across the country are choosing SolarCity as their commercial solar power provider. Learn more here.

*Environmental calculations are based on data from theUnited States Environmental Protection Agency and theNational Renewable Energy Laboratory, with a system lifetime estimate of 30 years.

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