Nestlé Waters North America (NWNA) has announced a deal to purchase wind energy from ENGIE Resources’ Midway Wind Farm in San Patricio County, Texas.
ENGIE will supply over 50% of the energy needed for NWNA’s manufacturing and distribution facilities in Texas. Specifically, NWNA operations in Travis, McLennan, Dallas and Harris counties will be supplied by wind energy from the Midway Wind Farm, supporting Nestlé’s global goal to transition to 100% renewable energy use in its operations.
The agreement will include up to 70,500 renewable energy certificates (RECs) per year from Midway Wind LLC. Based on current electrical usage, by transitioning its electrical power needs to renewable sources, the carbon footprint from the company’s Texas factories will be reduced by more than 44,000 metric tons of CO2 per year.
“We’re pleased to offer a suite of sustainability solutions that make it easy to be green,” says Graham Leith, senior vice president of ENGIE Resources. “In this case, NWNA took advantage of ENGIE’s easyRE product, which allows our customers to take service directly from an existing renewable energy source. easyRE differs from traditional [power purchase agreements] via competitive pricing, shorter contract terms and right-sized volumes.”
Earlier this year, NWNA transitioned its facility in Sacramento, Calif., to 100% renewable energy and announced, along with its parent company, a 15-year wind power purchase agreement with ENGIE Resources that will provide approximately 80% of the electrical load for five Nestlé facilities in southeastern Pennsylvania. As a result of these recent milestones, by 2019, over 20% of the electricity Nestlé uses in the U.S. will be from renewable sources.
