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"Australian hardware and garden store giant Bunnings announced this week that
it has achieved its goal of powering its operations with 100 per cent renewable
electricity.
Bunnings committed to source 100 per cent renewable electricity by 2025 back in
2020 as part of its wider target to achieve net zero Scope 1 and 2 emissions by
2030.
Since then, Bunnings has steadily built solar PV systems across its stores in
Australia and made efficiency improvements in an effort to reduce energy use.
Announced on Monday, Bunnings revealed that it had achieved its 100 per cent
renewable electricity milestone across its Australia and New Zealand store
network.
All 452 Bunnings Group sites – including Bunnings stores, trade centres,
distribution centres, store support locations, Tool Kit Depot stores, and
Bunnings owned Beaumont Tiles stores – are now powered by renewable
electricity.
On-site solar PV systems have been installed at 163 sites, generating 30 per
cent of each stores total electricity needs, and Bunnings is planning to
continue adding solar PV systems across its network of stores.
Filling out its electricity needs are power purchase agreements (PPAs) with
large scale solar farms including agrivoltaics projects, wind farms, and hydro
power stations – though these PPAs appear only to “match” consumption with
generation, rather than directly supply electricity.
One such PPA was signed in early 2022 with Queensland’s publicly-owned energy
generator and retailer CleanCo and Bunnings parent company Wesfarmers to
provide renewable energy to a number of its major subsidiaries – Kmart, Target,
Bunnings, and Officeworks.
The PPA would see power sourced primarily from the Western Downs Green Power
Hub, one of Australia’s largest solar farms, and MacIntyre Wind Farm, one of
the largest wind farms in the southern hemisphere."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
