Global Sustain Yearbook 2016/17
The Energy [R]evolution | Corporate
The GREENSTORE initiative is a MCC standard for refurbishing stores and, in Dongguan, also includes rainwater storage and a smart waste management system. But the dimension of the existing store, the foundation and the building materials cannot be changed and here we see additional potential for energy savings in new stores. Therefore, we started the ZEUS Initiative for new buildings: construction will be more strategic, we will take into consideration the building’s shape, the
building materials, technical equipment and also operational processes to make the store CO2-neutral. The pilot ZEUS store is currently under construction in MCC St. Pölten/ Austria and will be opened in 2017. We are using the characteristics of a wooden construction and concrete foundation with huge horizontal glass facades to use natural light, full LED and modern ventilation systems to reduce the electricity demand by more than 50% of good operating MCC standard. Although
the store is located in Austria with cold winters, we do not have a heating source: the heat comes from tubes in the foundation and from the heat recovery of the transcritical cooling system. The electricity needed on top of that will be produced by a 1,000 kW PV system.
2030 is the date that we have highlighted in our strategies as the day after tomorrow – and we aim to have achieved our METRO corporate climate target by then. www.metrogroup.de
Whenever we have the possibility and the right conditions, we will install the GREENSTORE and later the ZEUS as the new METRO standard to reduce our climate impact considerably.
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