Eco-Friendly Storage

Update 10/28/20 – Extra Space has partnered with solar-power company Pivot Energy to add 5.5 megawatts of capacity at 65 of the REIT’s locations in Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Tennessee. The will offset 80...

Northland Self-Storage, which operates two facilities in Michigan and is building a third, recently unveiled solar panels at its Bay Harbor/Petoskey location and will add them to its new development in Alanson, which is expected to open next year...

Takhzeen, the only self-storage facility in Bahrain, intends to install a rooftop solar-panel system that’ll supply 100 percent of the property’s electricity needs and give energy back to the national grid. The project is in the permitting stage...

Abacus Self Storage in Richmond Hill, Ontario, installed a net-metered, solar-photovoltaic system that’ll meet 95 percent of the facility’s energy needs and displace 1.6 tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year. The 112kW system at 25 Colston...

Skyline Self Storage of Cape Coral, Fla., is working toward a greener planet by donating trees to Future Forestry Corp. (FFC), which will plant hundreds of seedlings this summer. The storage operator has thus far provided the organization with 800...