MAJOR BRANDS USING RENEWABLE ENERGY IN A BIG WAY
Japanese conglomerate Sony plans to have a zero environmental footprint by 2050 . Their CD manufacturing site in Austria is one of the few in Europe that uses 100 percent renewable energy . For their plan , the music maker aims to reduce its annual energy consumption of its products by 30 percent by 2020 , and use renewable energy to reduce its Co2 by 300,000 tons by 2020 . According to the company , initiating those improvements in its production lines will easy any environmental footprint .
For Google , the American technology company has been carbon neutral since 2007 , with any emissions they make offset by buying carbon credits . With plans of being 100 percent renewable , Google claims it is 35 percent of the way there . In fact , the company is investing $ 2 billion in renewable energy projects , including a $ 300 million investment in 25,000 SolarCity rooftop power plants , and installing the world ’ s largest corporate solar panel at their Mountain View headquarters . In addition , Google is running cogeneration units at their corporate campuses .
Furniture giant Ikea is set to become 100 percent powered by renewable
energy by 2020 . The company hopes to have produced 70 percent of its total energy consumption through renewables by the end of 2015 . To do so , the company is committed to investing $ 1.1 billion into wind and solar energy . While Ikea currently owns wind farms in the United States , Canada , Denmark , France , Germany , Ireland , Poland , Sweden and the United Kingdom , the company is also installing 550,000 solar panels on 120 of their stores and warehouses around the world .
Walmart is buying up more longterm power purchase agreements
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