The existing 4.75MW solar farm, meanwhile, was installed in 2016. Alan Johnson, vice president of Manufacturing at Nissan Sunderland, said that as its products made in Sunderland become increasingly electrified – with the Nissan Leaf electric vehicle being manufacturer there – Nissan's operations are "an important part of the ecosystem that will take us to carbon neutrality". "Renewables have already made a big difference to our business and we continue to look for ways to make the manufacturing process more sustainable." The company is currently targeting carbon neutrality across its operations and the life cycle of its products by 2050. In 2018, it launched a home solar-plus-storage product that offered panels provided by Hanwha Q Cells and LG and Nissan's own xStorage battery storage system, which it developed alongside Eaton.