enabling sustainability - Aboitiz Power

Pilmico
energy conservation
A big chunk of the operating cost of a manufacturing company is
power. As fuel prices continue to escalate, it has become imperative
for manufacturers to become energy-efficient. Attaining the goal
entails cost but in the end, the results are worth it.
Moreover, Pilmico replaced conventional fluorescent to compact
fluorescent lamps. Pilmico’s success at cutting down energy
consumption could be a model for other manufacturing companies.
Pilmico Foods Corp., a wholly owned company of Aboitiz Equity
Ventures, made adjustments in its manufacturing systems to
cut power costs. Cutting energy consumption, becoming energy
efficient and limiting the use of vehicles are ways to reduce carbon
and greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere.
One of the adjustments made by the company is the revision of
conveyors-high level interlocking program that uses sensors to
control the operation of mixers and conveyors.
Also, Pilmico modified its packing, milling and cleaning systems.
Its efforts resulted in savings of 66,744 kilowatt-hours (kWh) for
2008. The following year, additional changes were made on the
company’s packing system and laboratory, effecting total energy
savings of 89,731 kWh for 2009 alone. This energy savings was
carried over to 2010.
Carbon emissions
The Aboitiz Equity Ventures carbon emission
inventory is a means to monitor its emissions
and eventually find ways that these emissions
can be reduced or managed.
In conformity to the GHG Protocol Guidelines, the Group declares
scopes 1 & 2 (direct and indirect emissions). For Scope 1, it
computes for emissions from fuel use and for Scope 2, it accounts
for emissions from purchased electricity.
The group adheres to operational boundaries in determining
what to include in the inventory. This accounts for the
companies where Aboitiz Equity Ventures exert operational
control. The grid emission factors used to compute emissions
from energy consumption were adopted from a published
material and calculated by Mila J. Jude, Chief Technical Officer,
SEEDLinks Philippines, Inc using the latest methodology of the
UNFCCC-CDM.
Emissions in 2010 include those from the power barges in
Mindanao that AboitizPower started to operate in 2010. These
made substantial contribution to the Scope 1 & 2 emissions from
bunker fuel and purchased electricity consumption. The series
of power outages in Mindanao necessitated the operations
of back-up power for Davao Light and Power Corp resulting
to higher emissions from bunker fuel consumption. Aboitiz
Transport System is already divested from the group’s portfolio
but for purpose of consistency, emissions from the ships were still
accounted for in the 2010 inventory.
Emissions are in Tons CO2
2010
SCOPE 1
Emmisions
(Fuel use in vehicles
and fuel use for
operations (power
generation and ships)
SCOPE 2
PURCHASED ELECTRICITY
803,535
30,357
833,892
TOTAL EMISSIONS
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