5 February 2025

100% green electricity for CB

As well as solar power, CB now uses wind power. This makes our electricity 100% green. A total saving of 3,370,000 kg of CO2 per year.

There are solar panels on two of our warehouses. These provide us with a lot of green electricity and reduce CO2 emissions (equivalent to 330 households). The electricity generated by the solar panels is not enough for all of CB in Culemborg. So we also buy electricity. Since 1 January, this electricity is also completely 'green' because it comes from the wind.

Erik de Vries (Sustainability Coordinator at CB): 'If you look at the total impact we have on the environment (the so-called 'footprint'), the grey energy we bought had the biggest negative impact. So the fact that we are now choosing wind energy immediately makes us much more sustainable as a business. As a CB, we haven't set our sustainability targets yet, but with this change we will meet the 2030 principles of the Paris Climate Agreement in one fell swoop. Something to be very proud of.

In figures

CB's solar panels will generate an estimated 1.7 GWH from 2025 (saving 670,000 kg of CO2).
We will buy an estimated 7.2 GWh of electricity. By opting for wind power, we will save a further 2,700,000 kg of CO2.

Wind power

Erik: 'Wind energy is undoubtedly sustainable alongside solar energy because wind energy is completely renewable; the wind never runs out. Wind energy is also produced locally. CB, in cooperation with Vattenfall, chooses European wind energy. Wind energy is produced in very many places in Europe, so there is relatively little loss in the high-voltage cables.

Sustainability policy

CB wants to make sustainable decisions. With this in mind, we are now carrying out further analyses of our footprint. This will help us to understand which additional adjustments will have the greatest impact and require action.

About the Paris Climate Agreement