Nestlé in the U.S. announced it is investing in Ganado, a solar project owned and developed by Enel North America in Jackson County, Texas. With Nestlé’s investment, the project, which is the size of just over 600 hectares, or about 850 football fields, will add 208 megawatts of solar electricity to the U.S. power grid. It will help Nestlé advance its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across its operations.
In addition to its direct investment, Nestlé will purchase 100% of the renewable electricity attributes, generated by the project’s energy production. That’s estimated to be an average of 333,000 megawatt hours per year for 15 years. This renewable electricity will be used to help power many of Nestlé’s U.S. facilities, where household favorite brands, such as DiGiorno pizza, Stouffer’s, Nesquik, Purina Pro Plan pet food and Tidy Cats cat litter, are made. The annual carbon emission reduction is expected to be about 126,294 tonnes of CO2, which is equivalent to the emissions of more than 27,200 cars per year.
Nestlé S.A. is a Swiss multinational food and drink processing conglomerate corporation headquartered in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. It is the largest publicly held food company in the world.
(Source and image: Nestlé – Ganado Solar Project)