Food product corporation Danone is launching a new Global Energy Excellence Programme to transform the energy footprint of its sites.
The ‘Re-Fuel Danone’ scheme looks to make its operations more agile, energy and cost efficient, as well as resilient and more sustainable.
As well as delivering the programme via digital innovation and engineering, Danone is set to expand on its partnerships with local renewable energy providers to increase energy resilience and create shared community values.
As a result of the programme, Danone will increase its use of renewable energy, reduce its scope one and two emissions by a minimum of 42% by 2030 and see 100% of electricity coming from renewable sources and half of all energy coming from renewable sources by 2030.
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The change will also improve its energy efficiency by 30% by 2025 through a range of measures including scaling up its real-time management tools which are already live at Danone’s site in Wexford, Ireland.
This looks to build on Danone’s current sustainability progress which sees it using 68.5% renewable electricity across its sites, with six factories independently certified as carbon neutral.
“Energy is a massive contributor to how we make our category-leading products, but it also has an environmental impact. That’s why we are transforming the energy footprint of our sites globally through this Energy Excellence Programme,” Danone chief operations officer, Vikram Agarwal said.
“We will do this under three pillars – energy efficiency, investing in more energy efficient process technology and upweighting renewable energy sources.
“It will make us more sustainable, more agile, more cost efficient and more resilient, it also adds to how we deliver for our customers and consumers and helps us reconnect performance and purpose, so marks further progress on our strategy to Renew Danone.”
