Heineken as well as Iberdrola to provide 100% sustainable electrical energy by 2020

• Heineken Spain and also power service provider Iberdrola are collaborate to provide 100% eco-friendly electrical energy to Heineken's Spanish breweries as well as workplaces by October 2020. The lasting power acquisition arrangement (PPA) with Iberdrola belongs to Heineken's objective to run 100% carbon neutral by 2023.

The PPA-- an agreement in between an electrical energy company and also customer-- includes the building of a photovoltaic (PV) plant in the El Andévalo windfarm, in Spain's southerly area of Andalusia. According to Heineken, the PV plant will certainly inhabit 150 hectares as well as will provide the matching of 100,000 tonnes of CO2, producing 82 gigawatts hrs each year (GWh/yr) out of a 50MW of set up capability.

Iberdrola España CEO Ángeles Santamaria stated: "PPAs will certainly establish the criterion for the globe's power future. Renewables have actually verified their competitive advantage and also capability to provide power at inexpensive, secure rates."

The PPA becomes part of Brewing a Better World, Heineken's total sustainability approach that intends to expand its very own share of sustainable thermal power and also power internationally to 70% by 2030. Around the world, 29 projects are underway, utilizing solar, wind biogas and also biomass power.

Heineken Spain taking care of supervisor Guillaume Duverdier claimed: "This effort declares Heineken Spain's dedication to sustainability, in addition to our sector management placement in the drive to in the direction of renewable resource use in Spain.

" After covering all our breweries' electric needs, we will certainly be changing our existing gas central heating boilers with ones that utilize biomass in order to have the ability to make beer utilizing just renewable resource by 2023."