ABP Food Group has announced that it has converted to green electricity at 100% of its UK beef and lamb processing sites.
The energy sourcing has been underpinned by the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets’ Renewable Energy Guarantee of Origin scheme.
The move plays a key part in ABP’s strategy to reduce its carbon footprint under its 2020 sustainability commitments and complements its existing programme of generating its own renewable energy at its renewables division, Olleco, and at its Ellesmere site.
ABP states that its UK business now produces more renewable power than it consumes.
Dean Holroyd, group technical and sustainability director, said: “This announcement significantly accelerates us reaching our 2020 carbon reduction targets by the end of the year - two years ahead of schedule.
“The result has been a net positive solution to electricity where we now generate more renewable power than is required for our electricity consumption. It also means that we will have reduced our carbon consumption by almost a third since 2008.”
ABP Ellesmere was said to be the first externally verified Carbon Neutral processing facility in the world in 2015.
ABP Food Group was also awarded triple accreditation by the Carbon Trust for three consecutive years between 2015 and 2017. This achievement was driven by ABP Food Group’s ‘Doing More with Less’ sustainability strategy.
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