Coca-Cola Energy Efficiency

The Coca-Cola Company uses energy and contributes to emissions through energy consumption at our offices and bottling plants. In our bottling plants around the world, we are investing to improve our energy efficiency. Fossil fuels provide the bulk of our energy, but we are investigating and supporting market development for renewable power. We also have developed an Energy-Efficiency Guidance Manual that includes best practices which can improve energy efficiency in our operations by more than 10%, and prevent about 500,000 metric tons per year of greenhouse gas emissions.

The three largest components of our system's energy consumption are manufacturing, fleet/transport, and vending machines and coolers.

Manufacturing: Energy is consumed by our system's nearly 850 plants in the manufacturing process to provide the power for equipment such as boilers, chillers and air compressors.

Fleet/Transport: Energy is used by our system's fleet of approximately 200,000 vehicles to transport ingredients, packaging and finished beverages.

Sales/Marketing Equipment: Energy is used in our system's more than 9 million vending machines and coolers to keep products cold. The Coca-Cola system's vending machines and coolers are the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions within the system and produce three times the estimated emissions of our manufacturing facilities.

Across our bottling system, we are working to grow our business, but not our carbon emissions. Since 2002, our energy use efficiency has improved by 19 percent. Going forward our efforts will be led by Project esKO, an initiative we launched in 2007 to improve energy efficiency and productivity and reduce emissions in manufacturing.

We started with the basics —fixing leaks, insulating pipes, reducing pressure and optimizing temperatures. from here, we are moving to investments in efficient lighting, compressor optimization and heat recovery. We also are making investments in combined heat and power and in renewable energy.

Source: www.thecoca-colacompany.com