The well known giant IKEA just announced that it will allocate £1.2 billion for an investment program in renewable energies, i.e. solar panels and wind turbines projects, up to 2015, the final goal is to achieve energy independence until 2020, all green.
The main target of the company, being quote “energy and resource independent”, is also accompanied by the goal of achieving a better energy efficiency in IKEA group operations until 2020 also. These interesting projects and strategies were made public in People & Planet Positive, IKEA's own newspaper.
Let me give you a hint :
“We want to create a better everyday life for the many people. A better life includes living more sustainably. We have been working towards that goal for many years and have already done a lot, and we are now ready to take the next big step. People & Planet Positive will help us to do that; transforming our business and having a positive impact,” said Mikael Ohlsson, President and CEO, IKEA Group.
The industry appears to have welcomed IKEA’s sustainable approach. In response to the new strategy, John Sauven, Executive Director, Greenpeace UK, said “People & Planet Positive puts IKEA at the forefront of leading companies looking at the fundamentals of how to transform their business model in the face of environmental threats ranging from food and energy security issues through to water shortages and loss of biodiversity. On renewable energy IKEA’s vision of getting 100% renewable energy in their own operations by 2020 is the kind of ambition that if other companies followed would provide a huge boost to clean technology globally.”
As a matter of fact, IKEA's green policies were proven until now, the company has installed 342,000 PV solar panels on various stores and buildings all around the world, recently they made tremendous efforts in US, this month they announced the completion of its 34th solar project in this country.
Up to date, 75 percent of IKEA's facilities in the United States are Solar Powered, one way or another and soon another 5 stores will benefit from PV power, raising the amount of green stores to 89% in US, of course. The total solar energy produced by IKEA in US will reach a PV capacity of 38MW, in UK the company also has solar installations in 10 out of the 14 stores and facilities around the country.
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