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TECHNICAL INNOVATIONS
SUSTAINABILITY
PFG's template for going green involves multiple partners
An aerial view of PFG's Gilroy, California, center shows Volvo electric VNR trucks and FreeWire Technologies' ultrafast charging stations during an open
house event on Earth Day, April 22.
Rooftop solar panels will soon power
about 90% of PFG's Gilroy, California, operations,
the starting point for cold food
deliveries. The vehicles getting the various
edibles and food-related products
from the warehouse to restaurants,
schools, hotels and other customers include
new battery-electric Class 8 trucks
that mate to trailers fitted with zero-emission
transport refrigeration units (TRUs).
" Our Gilroy, California, location is the
pilot for how we intend to develop sustainable
distribution centers, " said Jeff
Williamson, senior vice president of
operations for Richmond, Virginiaheadquartered
Performance Food
Group (PFG). Williamson and others
were recently interviewed by Truck &
Off-Highway Engineering following an
Earth Day open house at the Gilroy site.
With more than 150 locations, PFG is
one of North America's largest food and
foodservice distribution companies. PFG's
transition to a greener future accelerated
with assistance from GridMarket, an automated,
artificial intelligence (AI)-driven
distributed energy project optimization
platform that helps companies streamline
the many facets of change.
" This is about PFG going from consuming
grid power, which has a higher
emissions factor, and consuming diesel
fuel with its truck fleet to electrifying its
fleet of trucks, trailers, yard tractors and
forklifts. It's also about producing renewable
electricity to support the electrified
tools, " Peter Schneider, director
of business development and project
management for New York City-based
GridMarket, said about PFG's Gilroy site.
Growing a 'green' fleet
Built in 2019, the 189,000-square foot
Gilroy distribution center turned greener
with this year's addition of a
1.58-megawatt DC rooftop solar array
and a 500-kW battery back-up energy
storage system. The alterations kickstart
the center's eco-slant, where on a 24hour
daily basis hundreds of supplier
products are vendor-delivered to one of
28 loading bays, and a fleet of PFG
trucks transport those goods to various
Northern California destinations.
" For our vendors, it's up to them if
they have 'green' vehicles. But we're doing
outbound deliveries with a fleet of
Performance Food
Group's distribution
center recently took
delivery of several
all-electric Volvo VNR
heavy-duty trucks.
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