ECOLOGY ENERGY The sun lights life and grants the human being his physical and spiritual strength. Sunlight, wind and hydropower are natural sources of energy- infinite, at least from a human perspective. Physically, energy can be neither generated nor consumed. However, the human way of using energy contributes substantially to climate change. Through carbon-neutral power generation from renewable energies, the emission of dangerous greenhouse gases can be reduced significantly.
Status and Target Overview Scorecard Classification
ID
Performance Aspect
Status 2009
Target Achievement Evaluation
Targets 2010 (Set in 2007)
Status 2010
Eng01.1
Total electricity consumption: 4,156,187 kWh
Total electricity consumption: 4,620,127 kWh
Aggregated measurement and evaluation
9
Eng01.2
Single issue initiatives to further implement energy efficiency strategy
Single action implementation
Energy efficiency strategy implemented
Energy saving
Estimated 0.9% energy saving (minimum)
No comprehensive assessment
> 1% energy saving
8 8
Proportion of clean(er) / renewable resource usage in the energy mix
Improvement andfurther application of different renewablesources
Maintainance of status quo; no significant source of renewable energy
Comprehensive renewable energy mix implemented and monitored
Energy usage
Eng02.1
Eng03.1
8
Full assessment and measurement of energy consumption is now possible on an aggregated company level but not within each company. This makes clear evaluation of reduction measurements difficult. Decreasing total electricity consumption is also challenging due to the expansion of several SEKEM companies. SEKEM is still working on developing and implementing a comprehensive energy efficiency strategy and continues to maintain its small-scale renewable energy projects.
SEKEM continues to have on-going small scale renewable energy projects, such as a small photovoltaic station at the headquarters, several hybrid solar dryer for herbal production, two Sheffler mirrors producing steam for production processes at the main farm and several solar water heaters on the roof of production sites. It is planned to engage with larger scale projects in the upcoming years. In the field of energy savings, we continue to make slow progress, mainly due to insufficient data of ongoing energy usage. It is necessary to implement an energy flow analysis on the company level in order to improve the current energy usage situation.
Gasoline Consumption by End Usage (‘000 liters) 576
310
291 158
119
155 69
131
2010 2009 2008
SEKEM-Electricity Consumption from Bills (‘000 kWh) 5,000
4,394 4,620 4,156
4,000 kWh(‘000)
2010 2009
3,000 2,000 1,000 0
914 863 990
1,031 942 1,055
630 284
605
679853 850
205 194289
470 475 616
491
225 203
491230 13
SEKEM Report on Sustainable Development 2010
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