能源
高士的目标是在可行的地方尽可能地开发可再生能源，并希望扩大其可再生能源发电量，在过去六年中，可再生能源发电量已从零增长到28％。 它在美国北卡罗来纳州的Patrick Yarn Mill和印度南部Ambas的工厂已经具有太阳能发电能力，该工厂也有一个基于生物质的蒸汽锅炉。
来自领导层的声音
“The risks associated with climate
change continue to grow and
the window of opportunity
for reducing damaging global
warming is closing. While we
have considered aspects of
climate change risk discretely,
we now regard climate change
as a unitary Emerging Risk
which is reviewed at Board level.
We are also looking closely at
how we can report progress
transparently and in line with
the recommendations of the
Task Force on Climate Related
Financial Disclosures, Addressing
energy consumption and the
sources of energy used in our
business are therefore very high
priorities for us.
Having done a lot in terms of
reducing energy use in prior
years we need now to focus
on real-time optimisation of
demand and will be running
pilot programmes for this
in 2020. We have made
significant progress in 2019 on
renewable energy, with a new
onsite solar array in Vietnam
and negotiations underway in
other locations. We have been
progressively transitioning off
coal as a fuel source, and this
was completed during 2019.
While climate change is a major
driver for our energy strategy,
it is also very important in
terms of cost management as
energy is a major cost driver in
our processes. Clearly reducing
energy consumption generates a
direct benefit, and we have also
found, so far, that transitioning
to renewable energy can be done
without a negative cost impact.”
Kevin Finn，商业运营总裁
Energy Strategy
Most of our energy use is for powering motors in our process equipment or for heating used in those processes. The split between the two uses of energy is (2018 in brackets) 55% (55%) for electrical energy used for process power and 45% (45%) for fuels used for generating heat. Most of the heat energy is used during dyeing processes, along with a substantial part of the electrical energy, which therefore makes this our most energy intensive process. Spinning and twisting, which are very significant users of electrical energy account for most of the remainder, with finishing winding and yarn coating processes and ancillary activities such as warehouses and offices making up the total.
Our targets for the energy pillar are two-fold; to reduce energy usage intensity by 7% by 2022 against our 2018 baseline (compared to a 22% reduction in the six years up to 2018), and to shift the sources of our energy much more towards renewables by 2022. During 2019 we have been assessing the scope for accessing renewable energy across our operational footprint and we will complete this work in 2020. The situation varies from country to country and is also changing rapidly. We are proposing to increase the use of biofuels in our operations and to enter more long-term Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) for onsite and offsite renewable electricity generation projects.
Up to the end of 2019 we have undertaken detailed energy surveys across a number of our larger units that account for 29% of our energy usage, and a large number of detailed energy saving plans are emerging from those surveys, most of which will be implemented in 2020. During 2019 our energy usage intensity dropped by 1% against 2018 on a like for like basis, having restated 2018 to remove Crafts NA and to incorporate Gotex and Patrick Yarns. We expect the rate of reduction in 2020 to be higher as the new projects are implemented.
During 2019 we signed an agreement for a 1 MW on-site solar installation in our Ho Chi Minh plant in Vietnam, which was installed and started functioning in October. We are currently negotiating additional long term supply agreements in the Americas and Asia.
Building new
renewable
capacity in
Vietnam
In 2019 we have completed the first
phase of a long-term Power Purchase
Agreement (PPA) for electricity generated
from photovoltaic panels. The agreement
was signed in July and the first phase was
completed and switched on in October.
These panels are installed on many of the
roof areas in our Ho Chi Minh City plant.
Phase 2 of the project will be undertaken
in 2020 using the roof area of the new
effluent treatment plant that is currently
being built on that site.
The full array will have a capacity of 1mW,
and the first phase is slightly more than
half of that (553 kW). The agreement will
run for 20 years and we anticipate that
it will reduce our CO2 emissions by 850
tonnes/year.
This project has been exemplary in terms of
the speed and efficiency of the installation
and start-up and has shown that in the right
circumstances it is possible to complete such
projects in a very short timeframe.
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