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.
BAT aims to achieve a 50% reduction in our Scope 1, 2 & 3 emissions by 2030 and to be Net Zero across their value chain by 2050.
EBRD has agreed to invest up to €29.3 million in a green bond issuance by Poland's R.Power SA. This investment will secure funds for renewable energy projects.
Eolenerg Project has ordered 12 wind turbines to be installed in their new wind farm in Săcele, Constanța, with Vestas Wind Systems.
IEA's latest monitor shows wide variations in clean energy deployment among regions and technologies amid increased manufacturing capacity and declining costs.
The Bulgarian Ministry of Energy has approved €268 million in state aid for 249 renewable energy projects, including energy storage units.
