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METRO GROUP : ANNUAL REPORT 2011 : BUSINESS
→ GROUP MANAGEMENT REPORT : 7. SUSTAiNAbiliTy MANAGEMENT
Energy and resource management
every day, MeTRo GRoUp provides millions of people across
the world with high-quality food products and consumer
goods. Because energy and other resources important to
the supply chain are limited and expensive, efficient business
practices are a central pillar of our commitment to
sustainability. To bring our internal energy-data management
to a higher level, we have taken such steps as introducing
an Internet-based data collection programme and
Co 2 measurement programme: by increasingly using digital
energy measurement devices, we are improving the validity
and transparency of calculation bases and of the interpretation
of our greenhouse gas emissions. With these
optimised data management practices and the targeted
steps taken at our stores, we were also able to convince the
capital market of our performance: in the reporting year,
MeTRo GRoUp was listed for the first time in the Carbon
Disclosure leadership Index of the Carbon Disclosure project
(CDp). The mission of this independent organisation is,
among other things, to energise efforts to lower greenhouse
gas emissions. The Carbon Disclosure leadership
Index includes only 53 of the world’s 500 largest com panies.
It is an important component of the annual Global 500 report
issued by the CDp and highlights those companies that
professionally manage business operations in terms of climate
change.
smart metering system in all consumer electronics stores
worldwide
a solid basis of data is needed to systematically plan and
introduce energy-saving and efficiency programmes. To
more precisely measure their stores’ energy consumption
and to better monitor successes, MeTRo GRoUp’s sales
divisions use smart metering systems, which enable the
electricity, gas and heating oil usage of a store to be measured
in a continuous, consumption-orientated manner. at the
end of 2011, about 1,700 Group stores and outlets were
equipped with smart metering systems – more than twice as
many as in the previous year. as a result, more than 80 percent
of our stores now use this technology. Media-saturn is
the pacesetter among our sales divisions: all consumer electronics
stores with their own connection to the power grid
have digital energy measuring devices today. By using this
measuring equipment, Media-saturn can automate and thus
optimise such parameters as the times when lights are
turned on or off and the regulation of heating and air-conditioning
units.
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Fuelling energy-related retrofitting
To be able to systematically optimise the energy usage of its
real estate properties, MeTRo GRoUp is closely examining
its stores. as part of this effort, the Real sales division conducted
specific energy analyses as part of an assessment of
the technical facilities of 25 hypermarkets. The results were
used to select 7 stores in Germany for energy saving programmes.
a high level of energy savings potential was found
in ventilation and air-conditioning systems. The reasons
include fresh air intake systems that are not adjusted to
needs, oversized design of air-conditioning systems and
hydraulic and heating distribution networks that are insufficiently
designed for today’s operational requirements.
Thanks to specially devised energy saving measures, the
Real hypermarket in erfurt, a city in eastern Germany, was
able to reduce heat consumption by 11.9 percent and electricity
usage by 8.4 percent after a year in operation. at all 7 stores,
heat consumption was cut by an average of 13 percent and
electricity usage by 5.3 percent during the reporting year
compared with 2010.
Carbon footprint 2011
at the end of 2010, MeTRo GRoUp began to develop a uniform,
Group-wide system to collect consumption data and to
calculate Co 2 emissions on the basis of the international
standard of the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) protocol. This means
that we are required not just to continuously improve the
quality and breadth of data in our carbon footprint. Thanks to
the uniform system in place, we can also be measured
against many companies in the world that also use the GHG
protocol.
We have thus reached our goal of securing and improving
the validity and transparency of our calculation basis. The
valid ation of prior-year figures and the quality and quantity
of current reporting year data, however, marked only a first
step in this process. as a result, we can now focus our activities
on another key effort: even better and faster identification
of areas with improvement potential and a more
targeted management of relevant measures. During the
reporting year, we realised that we failed to achieve three
quantitative targets of our energy and resource management
in 2011: the reduction of diesel, cooling agent and
energy consumption. The higher than expected diesel usage
is due to higher consumption values for low-emission
trucks, changed requirements with respect to the pre-cooling
of trucks as well as increased congestion on logistics
routes. our failure to achieve our targeted reduction of cool-