East Africa Breweries PLC (EABL) lately printed its 2022 Sustainability Report. Established in 1922, EABL’s community of breweries, distillers, and distribution community spans six Jap African markets. Their operations are concentrated in three predominant markets of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. EABL presently contributes about 1% of Kenya’s Gross Home Product (GDP) and engages over 60,000 farmers all through its provide chain.
In its 2022 Sustainability Report, EABL gave an replace on the restore of its boilers. To this point, the corporate has managed to exchange previous Heavy Gas Oil (HFO) boilers in Nairobi and Kisumu with biomass boilers that use agricultural waste similar to macadamia shells, sugar bagasse, espresso, woodchips, and rice husks. The biomass boiler grew to become operational in June this yr and EABL says the boilers are presently working at optimum capability. Switching to biomass will assist cut back its carbon emissions by 95% (about 34,000 tons) per yr.
In Tanzania, Serengeti Breweries Restricted (SBL), a subsidiary of EABL, is working to scale back direct emissions and all three of its websites (Dar Es Salaam, Mwanza, and Moshi) have switched to utilizing LPG forklifts. with decrease emissions than earlier diesel forklifts. It’s best to instantly change to electrical forklifts which are presently commercially obtainable, nevertheless, EABL will steadily improve electrical forklifts with time. The set up of biomass boilers in Moshi and Mwanza can also be deliberate.
Different initiatives talked about within the sustainability report are:
- Changing focused much less power environment friendly electrical drives with increased effectivity drives
- Conduct sustainability grasp planning for Moshi and Mwanza websites to supply a structured roadmap to speed up the journey to carbon neutrality
- Discover alternatives to acquire renewable power for his or her websites together with using photo voltaic power
- Changing LPG forklifts with electrical forklifts
- Set up of the STRATA system on websites to supply digital actual time monitoring and measurement of all recognized factors of electrical energy and thermal consumption
In Uganda, United Breweries Restricted (UBL) will even set up two ultra-modern biomass boilers with a capability of 8TPH. Biomass boilers can obtain a 90% discount in greenhouse fuel emissions. Different UBL initiatives embrace:
- Lowering using electrical power by optimizing refrigeration
- Use of low power consuming lights all through the location
- Restoration of carbon dioxide from the beer fermentation course of to be used in beer packaging. This prevents the discharge of CO2 into the surroundings.
- To speed up our journey to web zero carbon, they’re additionally planning
- The set up of photo voltaic PV crops to assist the grid
In Kenya, Kenya Breweries Restricted (KBL) has already put in a 400 kWp photo voltaic PV plant in Kisumu. The plant presently gives 7% of present electrical energy demand. KBL needs to extend the penetration of photo voltaic power from 7% to fifteen% by 2026. It can additionally set up photo voltaic panels at EAML and Tusker websites as effectively. As reported by Enterprise right this moment final yr, Kenya Breweries Restricted hoped to generate 9.3 MW at its plant in Nairobi and a pair of.4 MW in Kisumu from photo voltaic.
It’s good to see that main firms within the area like EABL usually publish progress stories, set particular targets, and progress to realize greater than their targets earlier than the goal these dates. Right here we solely give attention to power, however additionally they give attention to water and waste administration together with elevated use of recycled supplies and discount/elimination of waste in landfills. Within the case of EABL, the report states that they keep 0 tons of waste to landfill from their direct operations. 100% of all plastic used is recyclable, reusable, or compostable. That is increased than 2021, the place 90% of plastics are broadly recyclable and likewise increased than their 2022 goal of 98%.
One factor I observed is that other than the deliberate change in the long run from LPG forklifts with electrical forklifts, there isn’t any point out of any plans to undertake electrical automobiles on a wider scale, which may be very shocking. Industrial electrical vans, buses, vans, and vehicles at the moment are obtainable in Kenya and different elements of the world that may be sourced and equipped to their operations throughout East Africa to allow them to be a part of any main firm. plans now and within the close to future. Let’s hope that by the point the report comes out subsequent yr, there will probably be an enchancment, particularly because the transport sector is liable for a big a part of CO2 emissions in East Africa.
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