Stormcloud Brewing Company Production Facility

Energy efficiency was top-of-mind when designing the new brewery, and a number of environmentally friendly systems were put into place at the production facility, including:

6.2 kW Solar System with 10 two-panel ground mounted arrays that automatically orient to the sun’s location in the sky. Installed by Traverse Solar of Traverse City.

Large sections of vertical glass curtain walls and strategically placed skylights in the production area to maximize daylighting.

All interior lighting is controlled by occupancy sensors and shuts off automatically when vacant.

All exterior lighting is controlled by photocell and timeclock. Exterior lighting shuts off at dawn.

All light fixtures are LED, using less than half of the lighting energy (watts per square foot) allowed by the latest energy code.

Office furnace is 95% efficient (minimum requirement is 80% efficient).

Office condensing unit is 15 SEER (minimum requirement is 13 SEER).

Production area gas heaters are 90% plus efficient (minimum requirement is 80%).

Two electric car charging stations (Tesla and generic).