Rockwell Automation Environmental Performance

Rockwell Automation Environmental Performance

Rockwell Automation concentrates most of their energy conservation programs on reducing electricity usage because electricity is the majority of their energy consumption and carbon footprint.  In 2008, when normalized to sales, Rockwell Automation reduced electricity usage in their 56 manufacturing locations by 9 percent from 2007.

Only 10 percent of the carbon footprint is from natural gas usage. While that is a small portion of the total energy profile, we were disappointed that usage increased 18 percent in 2008 when normalized to sales. Liquid fuels are less than 1 percent of our carbon footprint and, when normalized to sales, we used 27 percent  less compared to the year before. 

While liquid fuels and natural gas do result in CO 2 emissions, nearly 90 percent of our emissions are indirect because CO2 generation takes place at the electric utility, not at our sites. For 2008, our total CO2 emissions dropped  9 percent.

In the coming year, we will expand and redefine our global greenhouse gas reduction efforts both in terms of the number of facilities we monitor and the scope of emissions we measure. We’ll then set new baseline measures to track energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. We embarked on this effort as part of our new US EPA Climate Leaders membership.

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