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GREEN ELECTRICITY MOLSON COORS
MOLSON COORS FIRST TO ACHIEVE 100% GREEN ELECTRICITY MOLSON COORS BECOMES THE FIRST MAJOR UK BREWER TO MAKE ALL PRODUCTS
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arling maker Molson Coors Beverage Company has become the first major brewer in the UK to produce all its beers and ciders using 100% renewable electricity. The company, which also produces Coors, Doom Bar and Aspall Cyder, has signed a 10 year Power Purchase Agreement with RWE, one of the world’s leading renewable energy companies, to supply its UK operations with electricity generated from the Tween Bridge wind farm in South Yorkshire. The 22 turbines at Tween Bridge will provide the electricity required to power all of Molson Coors’ UK sites, including the breweries at Burton, Tadcaster and Sharps in Cornwall, as well as the Aspall Cyder House in Suffolk, all offices, the national distribution centre and the national call centre in Cardiff. For the first time, all of the more than one billion pints Molson Coors produces in the UK in an average year will be made with electricity from 100% renewable sources. In an average year Molson Coors consumes the same amount of electricity as around 25,000 households – or the population of Burton-upon-Trent, where it is based.
Fraser Thomson, Operations Director, Western Europe at Molson Coors Beverage Company said: “One of our values at Molson Coors is taking accountability, and that includes being responsible for the impact our business has on the environment. That’s why we’ve made such bold commitments to play our part in tackling climate change – because it is the right thing to do. We know that this matters to our people, our customers and consumers, and they can now be assured that everything we do, and every pint we make, is powered by 100% green electricity.”
WEDNESDAY 31ST MARCH 2021 / ISSUE 49 / SLRMAG.CO.UK / 13
