Drinks solid Diageo plans ground-mount solar mount at packaging plant

• Drinks company Diageo - which produces spirits as well as beers such as Captain Morgan, Smirnoff and also Guinness - has applied for preparing approval for a new on-site solar farm.

The solar-- which would can producing 4MW of electrical power as well as contain 12,000 panels - would be located on uninhabited land at its Leven Packaging Plant in Fife.

Diageo is collaborating with E.ON and also Emtec Energy to develop the plans, which create part of its aspiration to achieve web no caron discharges from its direct procedures by 2030.

Gavin Brogan, operations director at Leven Packaging Plant, said the solar would take the company's decarbonisation "to another degree".

" We have prepared this thoroughly and also we enjoy to engage our neighbors as well as neighborhood stakeholders throughout the planning application procedure."

Diageo has actually already reduced fifty percent of the carbon in its procedures, and also is aiming to harness 100% renewable resource anywhere it operates.

A report from npower Business Solutions launched earlier this year found that solar is the most prominent option for businesses seeking to invest in renewables as part of their decarbonisation techniques due to falling costs as well as the loved one ease of installment.

Most lately, grocery store chain Lidl GB introduced it will be installing photovoltaic panels on all new shops as part of a new commitment to be carbon neutral by 2022.