Carbon management plan
Services provided
Carbon Management Plan
Benefits achieved
Cost avoidance, cost reduction of up to £5.7m identified, reduced CO2 emissions of up to 56,000te per annum, legislative compliance.
Summary
Molson Coors are the World’s third largest brewer and the UK’s second largest brewer producing £2.9bn of famous brands such as Carling, Cobra, Grolsch, Miller Lite, Aspall Cider and Worthington at four sites employing a total of 2,300 staff.
In recognising the opportunity that increasing emissions-related legislation and regulation together with increased energy costs presented to the business, Molson Coors wished to develop and implement an effective Carbon Management Strategy.
Approach
JRP carried out a scoping study which identified significant opportunities for improvement in the approach to carbon management around plant efficiency. The scoping study confirmed that significant value and carbon savings were available by focusing the programme implementation on four main areas of the business:
- Carbon Management Policy
The first of these was around the need to develop a separate carbon policy for the business and to review other related policies and practices against this with a view to modifying existing practices where possible to save energy.
- Energy & Carbon Awareness
The second area for consideration was to develop an ‘energy and waste culture’ across the business similar to the safety culture that already existed.
- Enduring Sustainability
The third area of activity related to the development of an effective process to ensure the ongoing development of energy and environmental continuous improvement plans to ensure long term reductions in consumptions to combat increasing energy prices and mitigate increasing legislation impacts and costs.
- Energy Efficiency Surveys
The fourth area for consideration was to develop detailed plans to enable immediate reductions in energy consumption.
Results
As well as identifying potential areas of energy saving, JRP Solutions also proposed solutions that would deliver savings in the areas of operations and maintenance (O&M) and waste. It was estimated that the work described in the study had the potential to save energy to the value of between £1.44 million and £3.8 million per annum and displace between 11,500t and 27,300t of CO2 each year.
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