Loadshedding inspires SA Breweries' innovation to use cow dung for production
This is definitely the future!
Loadshedding is back. Yay!
South African Breweries (SAB) are getting innovative and buying electricity from a waste-to-energy company that gets its power from manure.
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The target set by holding company Anheuser-Busch InBev’s global sustainability programme is to draw 100% of SAB's electricity from renewable sources by 2025.
They are hoping that there is a 25% decrease in carbon emissions across the entire value chain.
This is definitely a game-changer move and should inspire other industries to think about how they can also be eco-friendly and innovative with the energy used to create their products.
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All of SAB’s breweries across South Africa have been equipped with solar panels, generating more than 9.7GWh of renewable electricity in the first eight months of 2021.
Its Cape Dairy Biogas Project, located on a farm outside Malmesbury in the Western Cape, is still under construction.
Once complete, the biogas project will have a capacity of 4.7MW, supplying SAB with renewable energy generated from the manure of more than 7,000 cows and waste from surrounding farms.
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“Under this power purchase agreement and installed renewable electricity, SAB will achieve 23% contracted renewable electricity,” said Conor Ruff, the VP of procurement and sustainability in Africa, in a statement on Thursday. (Business Insider)
“As we accelerate our sustainability strategy, we are looking forward to collaborating with more partners in the renewable energy space.”
Loadshedding or not, alcohol is definitely something we will never run out of as South Africans.
Shout out to SAB!
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