2006
2005
ENVIRONMENTAL SUS TA INABILITY
Together with around 150 other international compa
nies, Heineken is a member of the World Business
Council of Sustainable Development, which aims to
pay a leading role in advocating sustainable develop
ment and promoting environmental efficiency, inno
vation and corporate social responsibility. Member
ship of this organisation gives Heineken access to a
valuable pool of knowledge and experience.
Heineken is also one of the founding members of
CEO Panel Business Industry, a panel formed on a
voluntary basis by the CEOs of fourteen international
companies operating in the food, water supply and
other sectors to seek solutions to the global water
problems. The CEO Panel aims to develop
programmes and activities which will contribute to
sustainable water use. The Panel has participated in
the World Water Forum, the third of which was held in
Kyoto in March 2003.
3.4 Energy
Aware of Energy
The Aware of Energy programme was set up by
Heineken in 2002 to help meet its target of reducing
specific energy consumption by 15 per cent between
2002 and 2010. The programme is aimed primarily at
raising energy-awareness among employees. Action
has been taken under the programme in several
areas, mainly based on good housekeeping but also
including technical measures such as waste heat
recovery and use of renewable energy.
Thermal energy
Heineken uses heat for brewing, cleaning bottles,
pasteurising and, at the maltings, for malt kilning.
This heat is generated from natural gas at 41 per cent
of Heineken's sites and from diesel/gas oil, light fuel
oil, heavy fuel oil or coal at the others. Seven per cent
of our sites utilise waste heat supplied by neighbour
ing industrial plants.
Renewable energy is used to generate some of the
heat required, the most significant of these being
biogas obtained from the anaerobic treatment of
waste water. Heineken has nineteen anaerobic treat
ment plants, the seven largest of which use the bio-
gas as an energy source.
Biogas supplied 1.1 per cent of Heineken's total
thermal energy requirement in 2003. Biogas pro
duced by anaerobic waste-water treatment is used by
nine per cent of our sites as a supplementary renew
able energy source for heat generation.
Main fuel used for heat generation
of all sites
COAL
DIESEL/GAS OIL
ELECTRICITY
HEAVY FUEL OIL
LIGHT FUEL OIL
NATURAL GAS
STEAM (WASTE HEAT)
Compared with 2002, specific thermal energy con
sumption by Heineken breweries was one per cent
lower in 2003, at 116 megajoules per hectolitre of
beer. Major contributions to this improvement were
made by the brewery in Lezajsk (Poland), where an
outdated boiler and a packaging line were decommis
sioned, and the brewery in Seville (Spain), where
technical improvements were made to the boiler
installation.
C
Specific thermal energy consumption by breweries
MJ/hl beer
2004
2003
2002
2001
target
actual
116
117
118
Specific thermal energy consumption by maltings
MJ/tonne malt
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2,9
target
actual
TOWARDS S U STA I N A B I L IT Y
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