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SUSTAINABILITY AND ENERGY
Fresh energy
Australia could reach the equivalent of 100 per cent renewable electricity by 2032, and is on track to reach 50
per cent by 2024, according to an Australian National University study, if the current rates of wind and solar installation continue. In line with this trend, many Austra2lian food and beverage manufacturers have inked major renewable energy deals in recent months. We take a look at some of the biggest announcements. 3
1CARLTON & UNITED
BREWERIES: SMALLGOODS:
AUSTRALIAN VINTAGE:
PRIMO
WILL SOURCE ENERGY FROM BOTH SOLAR SIGNED A 12-YEAR POWER COVERED 75 PER CENT OF ITS AND WIND FARMS THROUGH A HYBRID PPA
PURCHASE AGREEMENT BRISBANE FACILITY ROOFTOP Australian Vintage will source energy from both (PPA) WITH ENERGY WITH SOLAR PANELS solar and wind farms to operate its largest site – SOURCED FROM A and the third largest winery in Australia – after VICTORIAN SOLAR FARM. Meat processor Primo Smallgoods has signing a hybrid renewable power purchase
covered 75 per cent of its Brisbane agreement with corporate retailer Flow Power. The Victorian brewer Carlton & United facility rooftop with solar panels in deal will take the company’s facility in Buronga Hill,
Breweries (CUB) signed a 12-year one of Australia’s largest commercial NSW to 90 per cent renewable, with 30 per cent Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) solar energy systems. The now coming from 1.65MW of ground and roof-mounted with BayWa r.e, with its renewable completed 3.2-megawatt system will solar installed by Todae Solar.
energy will be sourced from a new 112MW solar farm in Victoria. CUB is also moving towards onsite solar generation, with solar panels
to soon be installe4
generate 4869 MWh of power in its first year and save 1.2 million tonnes of CO2 over 20 years, the equivalent of powering 20,032 homes for one year.
MARS AUSTRALIA:
SIGNED A 20-YEAR PPA TO SOURCE 100 PER CENT OF THE ELECTRICITY NEEDED TO POWER SIX FACTORIES FROM RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
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d on the roofs at each of its breweries.
BURRA FOODS: SIGNED A TEN-YEAR PPA WITH MELBOURNE-BASED ENERGY RETAILER FLOW POWER
COCA-COLA AMATIL:
ANNOUNCED A $7 MILLION PROJECT TO PUT 10,000 SOLAR PANELS ON TO ITS ROOFTOPS ON THREE SITES
Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) committed to adding 10,000 solar panels to its rooftops as part of a $7 million project spanning three Australian sites in NSW, Qld and WA. The move is expected to help reduce CCA’s annual energy costs by up to $1.3 million.
Burra Foods announced plans to move to renewables in a ten-year PPA with Melbourne-based energy retailer Flow Power. The renewable power will be sourced from Ararat Wind Farm, and is expected to deliver annual savings in excess of 20 per cent.
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Mars Australia has announced it will source 100 per cent of the electricity needed to power six factories from renewable energy sources
SIGNED A TEN-YEAR VIRTUAL GENERATION AGREEMENT AND IS INSTALLING SOLAR
Pernod Ricard Winemakers has signed a 10-year virtual generation
through a 20-year power- purchase agreement (PPA) with Total Eren Group, which is building solar farms in Victoria
agreement (VGA) with wholes
ale
and NSW.
electricity retailer Flow Power and is installing the largest combined winery solar installation in Australia that will supply 20 per cent of the business’ annual electricity usage.
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PERNOD RICARD WINEMAKERS:
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