Business | 3 September, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Helexia installs 27,000 PV panels in retail stores
Helexia has installed 27,000 photovoltaic panels in 28 retailers Auchan and Leroy Merlin.
Helexia has installed 27,000 photovoltaic panels in 28 retailers Auchan and Leroy Merlin.
Auchan Retail Romania has announced that it continues investing in its green energy transition.
To date, the retailer Auchan has collected 32 million packages nationwide.
By 2030, Auchan aims to reduce CO2 emissions by 46% compared to 2019, says Corina Dospinoiu, Sustainability Director Auchan Retail Romania. She talked to Green Forum about the 2030 Climate Plan and about the company's main sustainability targets.
Auchan has set up collection points in the parking lots of its stores or within its premises where customers can recycle three types of packaging: PETs, aluminum cans, and glass bottles. Starting from Tuesday, April 18, customers are encouraged to bring the PET, glass, and aluminum packaging used during the Easter holidays, to the collection-recycling points equipped with automatic machines in 37 Auchan stores. Customers will be rewarded with a voucher worth RON0.5 (€0.1) granted exclusively in the form of a loyalty voucher, for each packaging recycled in its stores until May 31, 2023.
Retailer Auchan contributed to the recycling of 14,000 tons of waste at the store level in Romania in 2021. Also, through the collection of used cooking oil, initiated in October 2019, more than 220,000 liters of oil were collected until the end of 2021.
Top lenders discussed their strategies for integrating ESG considerations into financing decisions at the first CEE ESG Forum 2024, organised by Property Forum and Green Forum in Vienna last November.
Danish turbine manufacturer Vestas has revealed plans to build a new blade factory in Szczecin, Poland, in response to increasing demand across Europe and globally.
Aurora Energy Research has released its inaugural European Renewables Market Overview Report, projecting that intermittent renewable energy capacity in Europe will more than triple by 2050.
EBRD will advance the broader use of innovative financial instruments in Poland by signing a synthetic securitisation deal and new lending commitment with Bank Millenium.
SolarPro Holding, Bulgarian engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor, will develop a 174 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) farm in Romania's Oltenia region.
