Thermo Fisher Scientific Accelerates 100 Percent Renewable Electricity Goal for European Operations with New Solar Power Agreement with X-ELIO
04 Fevereiro 2025 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
Company leads value chain partners in purchase
agreement that adds 118 megawatts (MW) of solar energy to enable
decarbonization across the pharmaceutical and healthcare
industries
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in
serving science, today announced a 10-year virtual power purchasing
agreement (VPPA) with international renewable energy developer
X-ELIO designed to increase access to renewable electricity across
the pharmaceutical and healthcare supply chains. The Lorca solar
project is expected to be operational in early 2026 and includes a
cohort of three partners from the pharmaceutical and healthcare
sectors.
Thermo Fisher’s share of Lorca solar, together with the Serbal
solar project announced in December 2023, will match all of the
company’s addressable European sites with 100 percent renewable
electricity. The project also accelerates progress toward the
company’s goal of achieving 80 percent global renewable electricity
by 2030. Thermo Fisher’s 73 MW portion of the Lorca solar project
will generate approximately 150,000 megawatt-hours of renewable
electricity annually–equivalent to powering approximately 40,500
European homes for one year.1
The aggregated share of Lorca solar will simultaneously reduce
Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions for Thermo Fisher and the cohort of
value chain partners—GSK, Gilead Sciences and Haleon—who
participated in the agreement through the pharmaceutical and
healthcare industries’ Energize initiative. Scope 2 emissions
include those from purchased electricity to power a company’s
facilities, while Scope 3 includes emissions from value chain
partners.
“When we collaborate with our customers and suppliers, we
accelerate our collective progress toward net-zero emissions,” said
Konrad Bauer, senior vice president, global business services,
Thermo Fisher Scientific. “Achieving 100 percent renewable
electricity for our European sites is a significant milestone on
our journey, and as cohort lead for this agreement facilitated by
the Energize initiative, we are committed to leveraging our
experience and insights to help enable similar milestones for our
partners.”
The Energize initiative, managed by Schneider Electric together
with the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Initiative, is a collaborative
partnership among the world’s leading pharmaceutical and healthcare
companies and their suppliers that works to increase access to
renewable electricity, drive supply chain decarbonization and
accelerate action across the sector. Thermo Fisher joined Energize
in 2021 to support its own renewable electricity adoption strategy,
a key component of the company’s comprehensive net-zero strategy.
Thermo Fisher was elected cohort lead for the Lorca solar VPPA,
underscoring its industry leadership on the path to net zero
emissions by 2050.
“Making the most out of our energy and resources is crucial as
we collectively move toward more sustainable solutions across
industries and around the world,” said John Powers, vice president,
global renewables at Schneider Electric. “The Energize program aims
to drive supply chain decarbonization across the pharmaceutical and
healthcare industries while serving as a playbook for other sectors
as they look to power their operations with renewable energy.”
Thermo Fisher established its global renewable electricity
commitment in 2023, in alignment with the Sustainable Markets
Initiative (SMI) Health Systems Task Force joint supplier
standards. This followed the company’s raised commitment to reduce
Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 50 percent by 2030 against a 2018
baseline, as well as its plans to power all of the company’s U.S.
sites with 100 percent renewable electricity by 2026.
For more information about Thermo Fisher’s environmental, social
and governance progress, please visit www.thermofisher.com/csr.
About Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving
science, with annual revenue over $40 billion. Our Mission is to
enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and
safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences
research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing
productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health
through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of
life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global
team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies,
purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our
industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied
Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services,
Patheon and PPD. For more information, please visit
www.thermofisher.com.
1 From the Odysee-Mure project, based on the 2022 average
electricity consumption per household in the European Union (EU) of
approximately 3,700 kilowatt-hours (kWh) annually. The Odyssee-Mure
project is coordinated by ADEME (Agency for Ecological Transition)
with the technical support of Enerdata and Fraunhofer. It is
supported by LIFE-CET program of the European Commission and is
part of the activity of the European Energy Network (EnR) Club
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