Volvo largest manufacturing plant in Chengdu, China, is nowpowered by 100 per cent with renewable electricity,result of a new signed supply contract.
The 100 per cent renewable electricity mix in Chengdu is theresult of a newly signed supply contractand will reduce theplant’s CO2 emissions by more than 11,000 tonnes per year.
It is the latest concrete step towards Volvo Cars’ ambition to haveclimate-neutral manufacturing by 2025,part of a wider climate plan that aims to reduce the overall carbon footprint per car by 40 per cent between 2018 and 2025.By 2040, Volvo Cars aims to be a climate-neutral company.
The new electricity contract is also in line withbroader ambitions in Chinato reduce carbon emissions from industry and reduce the carbon footprint resulting from energy generation.
Until recently, theChengdu plant already sourced 70 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources. The new contract addresses the last 30 per cent.
Under the new contract, around 65 per cent of the electricity supply comes fromhydropower, while the remainder comes fromsolar power,wind powerandother renewable sources.
Our ambition is to reduce our carbon footprint through concrete, tangible actions – saidJavier Varela, Head of Industrial Operations and Quality at Volvo Cars.Securing a fully renewable electricity supply for our largest plant in China is a significant milestone and underlines our commitment to taking concrete, meaningful action.
Volvo Cars is constantly working to reduce the carbon footprintof its manufacturing network and has reached a number of milestones in recent years. All its European plants have had a climate-neutral electricity supply since 2008, while theengine plant in Skövde, Sweden, was the first in the company’s network to become completely climate neutral in 2018.
At the Ghent plant in Belgium,Volvo Cars installed 15,000 solar panels in 2018, the first large-scale introduction of solar energy in its global manufacturing network.
These and other measures are part of theclimate plan Volvo Cars launched late last year, one of the most ambitious in the automotive industry. The centrepiece of the plan is Volvo Cars’ ambition togenerate 50 per cent of global sales from fully electric cars by 2025, with the rest hybrids.
Source: Volvo Car Group
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