by Brianna Crandall — September 29, 2010—The largest solar panel array in New Jersey was powered up September 23 on the campus of Janssen, Division of Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and a Johnson & Johnson Company, in Titusville. The array is also reportedly the largest solar installation on any Johnson & Johnson site around the world.
The 4.1 megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic array of 13,496 ground-mounted panels tracks the sun from east to west, and is estimated to generate enough energy to provide 70 percent of the site’s annual electricity needs, or roughly the amount needed to power 600 homes annually. The Titusville site, which hosts multiple Johnson & Johnson companies, broke ground on the array in April.
In addition to the Titusville site, Johnson & Johnson has solar power systems planned or completed at 20 sites worldwide, which together represent an installed capacity of about 13 megawatts. A Johnson & Johnson video on the Titusville solar installation is available on YouTube.
The Titusville campus is one of several Johnson & Johnson sites that are certified as Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) sites. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Green Power Partnership lists the company as the nation’s sixth-largest purchaser of renewable energy. Johnson & Johnson also has received six Green Power Leadership Awards from the EPA and Department of Energy since 2002.
