Fokker Services Group Transitions Georgia Facility To 100% Solar Power

Fokker Services Americas, a subsidiary of Fokker Services Group, celebrated its transition to 100% solar energy use at its facility in LaGrange, Georgia.

According to Fokker Services Group (FSG), the facility is used for component maintenance for major airlines. The company viewed the solar project as an opportunity to work with businesses in the local community.

“We’ve got about 2,300 solar panels on the roof and on these carports,” says Craig Winter, president and managing director for Fokker Services Americas. “On a net basis, that powers all of our needs for heavy compressors, our industrialized machinery and it gives us some surplus that we sell back to the grid.”

The event also highlighted FSG’s collaboration with THINC College & Career Academy to sponsor its students’ submission to the Greenpower USA Foundation. As a result, participating students from the academy will take part in a competition to design, build and race electric-powered vehicles. According to Winter, the LaGrange facility has partnered with the academy’s work-based learning program for the past three years, resulting in multiple students starting their aviation maintenance careers with FSG.

“This sponsorship represents a significant opportunity to support students to apply their classroom knowledge to real-world challenges and to make a tangible impact in the field of STEM,” Winter says.

According to Winter, the transition to 100% solar power at the LaGrange facility reflects FSG’s response to a high demand for sustainable operations in Europe and abroad.

“This is becoming more and more of a topic for our customers,” Winter says. “We know that our customers in the U.S. are going to be looking at their supply chains and making selections based on who is good stewards of our planet and help them with their ESG agenda. So, we want to lead in that space.”