Samsung Electronics said it wants to use only renewable energy by 2020 for all of its operations in the US, Europe and China. It will then seek to further increase its use of renewable energy around the world, for the medium to long-term. In line with this commitment, Samsung Electronics has joined the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF’s) Renewable Energy Buyers’ Principles and the Rocky Mountain Institute’s Business Renewables Center.
In Korea, Samsung fully supports the government’s national strategic plan to increase the country’s renewable energy use by 20 percent by 2030. This year, the company will install 42,00 square metres worth of of solar panels in Samsung Digital City, its headquarters in Suwon. The company will continue to add 21,000 square metres worth of solar arrays and geothermal power generation facilities from next year in its Pyeongtaek campus and 2020 in its Hwaseong campus. With these efforts in place, Samsung Electronics is positioned to increase its use of renewable energy globally to match the equivalent amount of energy created by an average 3.1GW solar power plant by 2020. This amount of electricity is comparable to the annual energy consumption of about 115,000 four-person Korean households.
As part of its extended strategy, Samsung Electronics will also engage its partners across the supply chain. Beginning next year, Samsung plans to work with its top 100 partner companies to help them set their own renewable energy targets, in partnership with the Carbon Disclosure Project Supply Chain Program, which the company intends to join next year.
Apple reached its 100 percent powered clean energy goals worldwide in April.
