Energy Use & Conservation
Manufacturing our products to finished packaged goods and maintaining our highest standards of safety, quality, and sanitation, all while providing a comfortable and secure environment for our employees to work, can consume significant amounts of energy. In this type of interdependent environment, we know many opportunities exist to reduce energy consumption through operational optimization. Our scale provides us with a unique ability to test concepts at various facilities, learn, prove outcomes, and then implement successful energy-savings initiatives across our business.
We are on a journey of continuous improvement to identify our opportunities in this area and capitalize on them. Kraft Heinz is committed to reducing energy intensity by 15 percent across our manufacturing facilities with a 2019 baseline. Our energy reduction strategy includes a variety of aspects such as advanced monitoring and the implementation of our good operating practice guidelines such as machinery upgrades, heat recovery projects, and improved condensate return.
Reduce energy use intensity by 15% across our manufacturing facilities by 2025 (per metric ton of product made).
-4.2%
2022 Progress
In 2022, we improved energy use intensity by 4.22 percent across our manufacturing facilities compared to our 2019 baseline. Our progress was largely driven by significant acquisitions and divestitures in 2022. While we are working on improving the energy efficiency of our newly acquired facilities, our current sites have been continuously improving their energy strategy through efficiency measures and equipment upgrades.
Our Northgate, Australia facility has been making our iconic Golden Circle juice and canned products loved by consumers for 75 years. Last year, the facility initiated a boiler blowdown improvement project to further improve their energy efficiency. The project redirected water that was previously discharged after usage in the boiler due to impurities. By installing on-facility tubing and recycling systems, this boiler blowdown water was then recycled and mixed in with fresh water coming into the boiler. This project resulted in significant heat recovery which reduces the facility’s reliance on non-renewable resources for heating.
Our Mont Royal, Canada facility invested in a program to better identify and repair air leaks across the facility. The initiative included activities such as utilizing better monitoring technologies to diagnose air leaks and embedding more consistent inspection practices throughout the year. As a result, the facility saved approximately 885,000 kilowatt hours of electricity in 2022.
Looking Ahead
We are rolling out a robust energy reduction roadmap in line with our global net zero strategy. Our goal is to have better control of our energy usage by in-housing critical production processes. While this may diminish progress on our energy intensity goal in the short-term, we are committed to delivering energy and GHG reductions through electrification, heat recycling, and equipment retrofitting older machinery in the longer-term.
In 2023, we are focusing on energy roadmaps related to our largest global sites.
* Please note that environmental data for years between the base year (2019) and reporting year are not recalculated for acquisitions and divestitures as per our Basis of Reporting for key ESG indicators.
