Targets
7.1) By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services
Novozymes
Novozymes is working with partners towards the shared goal of ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services. It has supported the UN Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) Initiative's Sustainable Bioenergy High-Impact Opportunity (HIO) since 2013. The HIO is a voluntary partnership of likeminded stakeholders, which seeks to facilitate the development and deployment of sustainable bioenergy solutions in line with the SDGs. Its initiatives focus on-farm bioenergy production; waste to energy; cellulosic ethanol for clean cooking and transportation, and sustainable aviation biofuels. Formally launched in May 2015, the HIO has become a global partnership platform for developing a community of good practice, enhancing knowledge, and scaling up implementation. It has linked the private sector with national governments and civil society, to foster sustainable rural economic development and reduce the use of fossil fuels. Just one year later the Sustainable Bioenergy HIO is now accelerating the deployment of sustainable biopower and biofuels projects in 18 countries. To help de-carbonize the transportation sector, it is also working with the WBCSD to develop below50, a global campaign to increase the number of companies using sustainable fuels with emissions reductions greater than 50%.
In addition, Novozymes supports the European Union Biobased Industries Joint Undertaking, a partnership Novozymes had a leading role in creating, which launched in 2014. The Joint Undertaking is expected to inject €3.7 billion into the European economy from 2014-2024. Novozymes is also actively engaged in driving specific project based opportunities under this effort such as the Maarberg Energy Concept.
Solar Now
SolarNow, a Netherlands-based social enterprise operating in Uganda, was launched in 2011 to answer the pressing demand for affordable high quality solar home systems among 4 million off-grid households and entrepreneurs in Uganda and eventually in other countries. And since its inception, SolarNow has reached 20,000 people through the sale of over 2,700 systems in Uganda. As of September 2013, SolarNow is operating 35 shops in Uganda selling solar energy products with a credit facility. Renewable energy solar home systems are now being used by 20,000 people in with the aim to reach 200,000 by 2015. SolarNow is providing solar panels that will cut down on energy costs as well as carbon dioxide emissions by an estimated 5,000 tonnes per annum. It will also create additional income opportunities for households who can rent out electricity to the surrounding neighbourhood for various purposes. To reach the millions of rural customers with limited financial resources, substantial price reductions will be needed. In order to reduce the price, SolarNow is continually streamlining its importation import process, which lowers costs.
PPL Corporation
PPL’s utilities continuously review operations to improve efficiency and control costs, while also focusing on providing affordable, reliable, safe and environmentally responsible energy to their customers. PPL’s monitoring helps keep its energy rates cheaper than average for customers in the mid-Atlantic region. The company has set a goal to reduce the existing operating and maintenance expenses, further ensuring access to affordable energy.
Chevron
At Chevron, the company delivers the energy that improves lives and enables human progress. There are 7.6 billion people on the planet today. By 2040, there will be over 9 billion, leading to a 30 percent increase in energy demand. Yet even today, nearly 1 billion people have little or no access to affordable and reliable energy. Chevron leverages their people and expertise to solve this complex problem by developing more energy while protecting the environment.
P&G
P&G achieved its significant 2020 sustainability goal of purchasing 100% renewable electricity in the U.S., Canada and Europe. These three markets represent more than 70% of P&G’s purchased electricity. This accomplishment is due to the company’s wind farm in Tyler Bluff, Texas, which offsets 100% of the electricity needed for P&G’s Fabric and Home Care facilities in the U.S. and Canada, as well as the company’s onsite combined heat and power biomass facility in Albany, Georgia, which provides 100% of the Bounty and Charmin steam requirements.
In another effort, P&G aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030. The company has already reduced greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 25% since 2010. Additionally, the corporation has reached their goal of ensuring their plants are powered by 30% renewable energy, including their Albany Georgia bio-mass facility.
7.2) By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix
Mars
At Mars, we recognize the importance of tracking and reducing our GHG emissions to help drive momentum for global climate action. Our long-term climate change ambitions are to reduce total GHG emissions from our full value chain by 27% by 2025 and by 67% by 2050, from 2015 levels.
Within our full value chain, energy use is the major driver of our GHG emissions from direct operations. That’s why we’re committing to eliminate 100% of the GHG emissions in our direct operations by 2040, and are making progress by implementing renewables at scale.
Our efforts range from on-site renewable generation options like adding solar panels to our pet food factory in San Bernardino, California and establishing annual contracts in Europe, to signing long-term, country-level contracts that create renewable infrastructure in places like the United States and the United Kingdom. Mars is already using or purchasing renewable electricity to cover 58% of our total footprint, including 100% of our operations in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Lithuania, Mexico, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. Beyond these 10 countries, we have signed a new 20- year power purchase agreement with Total EREN to purchase 100% of our electricity in Australia from solar power starting in 2020. Our commitment to advancing renewables is part of Mars’ Sustainable in a Generation Plan, a $1billion investment to accelerate sustainable growth in alignment with the UN SDGs.
Bechtel
Bechtel has provided engineering, procurement, and construction services for the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in California’s Mojave Desert achieving commercial operation in December 2013. With Ivanpah, the amount of commercial solar thermal electricity produced in the United States nearly doubled. In the last 7 years, Bechtel has delivered three solar thermal and photovoltaic projects, including Ivanpah, totaling 737 MW; enough to power 275,000 homes. Bechtel partners with world leaders in academia and industry to manage and operate two U.S. national security laboratories—Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos—where energy security is national security.
Citi
Citi’s $100 Billion Environmental Finance Initiative is a goal to lend, invest and facilitate $100 billion over ten years to activities focused on environmental solutions and reducing the impacts of climate change globally. Activities supporting renewable and efficient energy generation is a major contributor of that goal. Citi products and services help its clients reduce or avoid Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions through financing for clean energy and energy efficiency projects. The company also invests in client efforts to develop projects, technologies and services that reduce greenhouse gas and other emissions. Wind and solar projects account for $8.9 billion or 38% of the first year’s total of $23.6 billion. Citi's Alternative Energy Finance team, which financed 1,650,700 KW of renewable energy generation capacity in 2014 in the US, which avoided 2,795,164.09 metric tons of CO2 emissions for the year, or the equivalent of energy needed to power 458,419 homes. Citi also helped finance Berkshire Hathaway Energy’s $2.75 billion, 579 MW Solar Star project in California.
dow
Dow is the leading customer of clean energy in its sector and is amongst the top 25 worldwide companies for renewable power use. The company is increasing the use of renewable energy in its production processes, while also advancing material for renewable energy (including photovoltaics). Dow has contracts for power acquired by wind, solar, hydropower, biomass and landfill gas worldwide.
A photovoltaic system (PV) is a solar power system designed to supply solar polar through photovoltaics. As the global photovoltaic industry continues to grow, the industry is in constant need of modules with longer service life and better reliability. Dow fulfills this need by supplying ENGAGE™ PV Polyolefin Elastomers (POE). ENGAGE™ PV Polyolefin Elastomers (POE) contribute to clean energy by providing opportunities for exceptional long-term performance, reliability and lower overall costs. Their top and bottom PV encapsulant films help improve resistance to potential induced degradation (PID), especially for high-efficiency bifacial solar cells. As a result, Dow’s ENGAGE™ PV POEs reduces the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) including total system costs.
DuPont
DuPont is commercializing cellulosic ethanol, the lowest carbon emitting and most sustainable transportation fuel in the world. Since 2009 we have operated a demonstration facility in eastern Tennessee producing cellulosic ethanol from corn stover, switchgrass and sugar cane bagasse. This experience combined with DuPont’s extensive work with farmers enabled the construction of a 30-million gallon per year facility located in central Iowa that is scheduled to begin producing cellulosic ethanol from corn stover in the coming months. The business objective is to license a comprehensive technology package that includes the cellulosic ethanol engineering design & technology, access to plant specific vendors and proprietary equipment, technical support during construction and operations, enzyme biocatalyst supply and feedstock supply consulting. This technology package will create access to deploying cellulosic ethanol for investors around the world.
Solar energy is the most abundant energy resource on earth – bringing innovations to market that harness that power is essential. DuPont is the leading supplier of specialty materials to the solar industry. More than half the world’s 700 million solar panels have DuPont materials in them, and DuPont materials have been time-tested in more than 11 trillion panel-hours of outdoor solar field installations globally since 1975. Materials matter because they help determine how well and for how long a solar panel works. Materials that improve the power output and the reliable lifetime of solar panels, improve the return on investment in solar energy systems - making solar more affordable and more competitive with other forms of electricity.
Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin is using its engineering and manufacturing expertise to advance renewable energy generation systems to help power the world. In fact, Lockheed Martin and teammate Concord Blue are building a power generation facility that will provide a new, clean energy source to meet the needs of 5,000 homes and businesses in Herten, Germany. The five-megawatt power generation facility will transform forestry waste to power using Concord Blue’s Reformer® technology, which converts waste to energy through advanced gasification. At the same time, Lockheed Martin is maturing technologies to create energy from the ocean, to include Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC), wave and tidal power technologies, for use in Europe, Asia and other markets.
PPL Corporation
PPL’s operating company LG&E and KU, make investments in expanding renewable and distributed resources, as well as researching low-carbon technologies. LG&E and KU recently built Kentucky’s largest utility-scale solar photovoltaic facility at E.W. Brown Generating Station, featuring more than 45,000 solar panels on approximately 50 acres. The company also offered a Green Tariff to further support renewable energy growth and economic development in Kentucky.
PPL offers a Solar Share program, which gives residential, business, and industrial customers the opportunity to share in local solar energy and receive credits on their monthly bills. In Kentucky, PPL collaborates with the Electric Power Research Institute on an energy storage research. The company also works with demonstration sites, allowing the utilities to develop, test, and evaluate the potential benefits and operating needs of large-scale battery technologies.
In Pennsylvania, PPL Electric has developed and implemented an advanced Distributed Energy Resource Management System designed to manage solar, wind, and other renewable power coming onto the grid, which helps ensure quality and reliable power, while keeping the grid running smoothly.
Pirelli
Pirelli’s 2013-2017 sustainability plan, which sets a number of targets for 2020, foresees a 18% reduction in the specific energy consumption ratio and a 15% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2020. To achieve these targets, in addition to specific energy efficiency actions at all Group plants, Pirelli has developed a Carbon Action Plan, with the aim of increasing the use of energy from renewable sources with dedicated projects (photovoltaic power plants, cogeneration plant powered by vegetable oil, biomass plant for steam generation, supply of electricity from wind power).
7.3) By 2030, double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency
Bechtel
Bechtel is building some of the world’s most efficient natural gas fired power plants. For our customer, Panda Power Funds, we have delivered two 758 MW plants with another two on the way, totaling over 3000 MW of efficiently produce power.
Bechtel's Crossrail project, where they are adding more underground and ground level track and new stations for the existing London Underground, has been piloting energy reductions at various sites. They have piloted the use of hybrid excavators, powering a noise monitor with hydrogen fuel cells for a calculated carbon savings of 101 tons, and relying on light-emitting diode (LED) lighting instead of traditional halogen lights to reduce energy consumption. All of these programs, once tested, help the construction industry improve energy efficiency.
Cricket Valley Energy Center LLC has awarded Bechtel a contract to design and build the new, natural-gas fired power plant, which will provide electricity for one million homes and create approximately 1,100 jobs at peak construction. The Cricket Valley Energy Center, a 1,100-megawatt (MW) combined-cycle plant to be completed in 2020, will have a low-impact design and will use advanced emissions-control technology.
Walmart
Walmart aspires to reduce their energy consumption by 20 percent per square foot by the end of 2020 compared with the 2010 baseline and have reached a 13% reduction. As of 2019 28% of Walmart’s operations are powered by renewable sources against their goal of powering 50% of their operations with renewable sources of energy by 2025.
Citi
Citi is leading the way in designing new vehicles to finance and scale energy efficiency for corporations, governments and homeowners, by aggregating pools of projects. For example, Citi is a leading collaborator on the Warehouse for Energy Efficiency Loans (WHEEL), a national, U.S. public-private financing platform that brings lower cost capital to public-sponsored residential energy efficiency loan programs. Serving as the capital markets partner, warehousing and securitizing loans, the company has worked and continues working with state and local governments (including Pennsylvania, Kentucky and New York), the Department of Energy, and various nonprofits to facilitate adoption of this approach. Citi is supporting research to see how the company can expand energy efficiency financing in other markets.
PPL Corporation
In addition to distributing critical energy-efficient information to their customers, PPL has implemented energy efficiency programs across their utilities—saving more than 307,000 megawatt-hours of electricity. These tools and programs include free online energy assessments and free energy efficiency kits, including energy-saving products. PPL company LG&E and KU also offers demand conservation programs for their customers, which incentivizes bill credits in exchange for the installation of demand conservation devices. This program allows for reduced energy consumption on peak usage summer days.
Novozymes
With climate change as a top priority, Novozymes has made considerable investments in energy efficiency and has significantly increased the share of renewables in its energy mix. Energy from renewable sources accounted for 30% (target 28%) of the total energy consumed in 2019, up from 23% in 2018. Novozymes procures renewable energy for their Danish and Brazilian facilities and has set a target of increasing annual sourcing of renewable electricity to 100% by 2030.
Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin manages innovative and successful commercial, Industrial and residential energy efficiency (EE) programs for many of the United States’ utilities including Pacific Gas & Electric, Pepco, Con Edison, Energy Trust of Oregon, Southern California Edison and many more. Under these partnerships, Lockheed Martin is working to ensure each customer conserves energy, increases operation efficiencies, maximizes capital spending and does their part to protect the environment. Additionally, the Lockheed Martin energy storage group partnered with Convergent Energy + Power, an integrated energy storage asset developer, to complete a 100 MWh energy storage system in Boothbay, Maine. The energy storage project demonstrated that the electricity grid can be improved and made more reliable in a clean, efficient way -- while saving electricity users money.
Means of Implementation
7.A) By 2030, enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced and cleaner fossil fuel technologies, and promote investment in energy infrastructure and clean energy technologies
Bechtel
Infrastructure helps make renewable energy more widely available. Bechtel is enabling 3,000 MW of offshore wind to be connected to the grid off the coast of New Jersey by engineering and installing onshore transmission lines and substations, two onshore converter stations, one offshore converter station, and overseeing the offshore installation of a first-of-a-kind high-voltage direct current (HVDC) converter technology and HVDC cables that will span the length of New Jersey.
IBM
IBM announced a 10-year initiative to support China in transforming its national energy systems and protecting the health of citizens. Dubbed “Green Horizon,” the project sets out to leap beyond current global practices in three areas critical to China’s sustainable growth: air quality management, renewable energy forecasting and energy optimization for industry. To improve air quality management, scientists from IBM and the Beijing government will apply supercomputing processing power to create visual maps showing the source and dispersion of pollutants across Beijing 72 hours in advance, with street-scale resolution. Additionally, IBM will complement the government’s increased investment in renewable energy with a forecasting system solution which, by combining weather prediction and big-data analytics, will allow utility companies to forecast the amount of energy that will be available to be directed into the grid or stored, ensuring waste reduction. IBM is also supporting China’s national goal to reduce energy consumption by developing a new system that helps monitor, manage and optimize the energy consumed by industrial enterprises – representing over 70 percent of China’s total energy consumption.
Novozymes
In Italy, alongside its partner Beta Renewables, Novozymes helped establish the first biorefinery in the world to be designed and built to produce cellulosic bioethanol from agricultural residues and energy crops at commercial scale using enzymatic conversion. Situated in fields outside Crescentino and using waste residues from local agriculture, the biorefinery can produce up to 13MW of electricity and up to 50M litres of cellulosic bioethanol per year, with a GHG reduction potential of up to 90% compared with petroleum-based fuel. It is entirely self-sufficient in its energy consumption.
Novozymes is also heavily engaged with the Sustainable Energy for All initiative of the UN and World Bank.
7.B) By 2030, expand infrastructure and upgrade technology for supplying modern and sustainable energy services for all in developing countries, in particular least developed countries, land locked developing countries and small island developing States in accordance with their respective programmes of action.