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SECTION FOUR 4. Environmental Key Performance Indicators 4.1 Energy 4.1.1 Legal Compliance: All energy related machinery needs to be in compliance with local legislation. This applies to both a health and safety aspect (please refer to the PUMA.Safe Health and Safety Handbook for further details) and an environmental aspect. Here particularly large boiler operations, coal burners, etc. need to be registered with the local environmental authorities and follow standards on air emissions, safe storage of fuels, etc. 4.1.2 Targets The PUMA Sustainability Scorecards sets a target of 25 % reduction for both energy and CO2 emissions for PUMA direct suppliers but also offices, warehouses and stores between 2010 and 2015. 4.1.3 Carbon footprint and energy efficiency During the last years energy costs have risen dramatically. At the same time there is a political, as well as, a social focus on the impact of CO2 emissions and climate change. To reduce both energy costs and CO2 emissions, energy efficiency programs should be run in every factory, as well as, in larger offices, warehouses and stores. A first step towards increasing energy efficiency is to measure and analyze the energy consumption and to consider in which areas energy saving measures are feasible. Simple measures such as, switching machines off when not in use, or using energy efficient lighting have proven to be highly profitable at relatively low or no investment cost. Another option is to optimize the heating and cooling of buildings. Typically, air conditioners or heating systems can be adjusted in a range to fit the outside temperature (for example 23 instead of 20 degrees Celsius inside at an outside temperature of 30 degrees Celsius) rather than just run on maximum power, with a beneficial effect on energy consumption. Taking this aspect further, a good insulation of buildings helps to save energy used for heating and cooling. Furthermore, waste heat from the production process may be used for heating purposes of the building as well as natural ventilation or evaporation cooling effects for energy efficient cooling. 4.1.4. Best Practice A good practice example is the PUMA headquarter PUMA Plaza in Herzogenaurach, Germany. Concrete core temperature control is used to efficiently heat and cool the buildings. Three photovoltaic power systems generate around 150,000 kWh of electricity per year and thus help save 75 tonnes of CO2 per year while at the same time generating considerable financial income as the generated power is sold into the public grid. Besides this, all electricity purchased from the public grid runs under a renewable energy tariff, making the whole office Carbon Neutral in terms of electricity consumption. Censors, which turn off lights automatically if employees are not at their desks or in stairways, were installed to save electricity. Heating required during winter times is generated with a combined heat and power plants, party using landfill gas as fuel. 18
Such good practices are, however, not limited to PUMAs Headquarter. Our leading suppliers have started to implement similar actions. 4.1.4.1Milteks, Georgia In 2011 Milteks, one of PUMAs key partners in Europe for Teamsport knits, set the benchmark for renewable energy usage. An old Water Turbine from 1948 was renovated within one year with a capacity of 876.000 kWh per year to cover total energy consumption for their nearby factory. After one year of renovation, the water turbine, river bed recovery and cleaning of a 650mt canal and 30mt penstock, the water power was enough to generate electricity for the factory with a total capacity of 876,000 kWh per year. The hydro power station went live in 2012, and feeds enough electricity into the public grid to offset their entire factory’s electricity consumption. 19
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