International. Ingersoll Rand announced that it has achieved significant achievement in its Global Climate Commitment ahead of schedule and is expanding its commitment to renewable energy investments at its facilities and beyond.
The company committed to a 35 percent reduction in its greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint from its own operations by 2020. To meet this goal, the company set a goal of a 10 percent increase in energy efficiency from 2013 baseline, and has achieved the goal two years ahead of schedule.
"Energy efficiency is a primary consideration in everything we do in our own operations and for our construction, industrial and transportation customers," said Paul Camuti, Senior Vice President of Innovation and Chief Technology Officer, Ingersoll Rand. "We are pleased to achieve this important goal and thank the Ingersoll Rand team around the world for reducing energy use and our impact on the environment, and for enhancing sustainable value for our customers."
Ingersoll Rand conducted an energy audit of its own facilities and updated the air conditioning, controls and lighting systems, eliminated energy leakage from its compressed air systems while measuring, validating and reporting the results. This reduced energy use by 109,000 MM BTU and electricity consumption by 22,000 MWh, which is the equivalent of not burning around 11,800,000 kilos of coal and providing power for 1,750 homes for a year.
At three large manufacturing plants located in the U.S. and China, Ingersoll Rand installed solar systems within its manufacturing plants, to reduce 15% of the energy load at these locations. This is equivalent to saving more than 2 million liters and taking 1,000 cars off the road.
In addition to on-site renewable energy sources, Ingersoll Rand has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for approximately 100,000 MWh of wind power annually. The wind farm is located in Baylor County, Texas. The PPA replaces 32% of the company's U.S. electricity use with green energy, and reduces U.S. Scope 2 GHG emissions by 32%. This equates to recycling 26,000 tons of waste instead of sending it to a landfill and preserving 600 acres of U.S. forests.
