“BA Glass is a glass container producer for the food industry. We are present in six countries in Europe and in Mexico. Here in Bucharest, we have one of our biggest plants of the group and we are investing to improve our industrial process.
BA is a big consumer of energy. We consume 4 TWh of natural gas and 1 TWh of electricity per year. We know this, but we also know that glass is a special material. It is a special material because we can 100% recycle it.
At the moment, we don’t have any emissions on Scope 2. Our electricity that we are using in the group comes from renewable sources,” said Jose Pedro Nunes, Energy Procurement Manager, BA Glass, during Green Energy Conference organized by The Diplomat-Bucharest.
Key statements:
- So, what we are doing now is working to reduce our CO2 emissions from the natural gas side. BA Glass has more than 100 years of history. We learned how to change, how to innovate. And we are sure that we will be able to change our processes to use greener fuels.
- The definition of sustainability is based on three big pillars: planet, people, and profit. And we can’t do this change to greener fuels if we are compromising the results of the company. So, for that, and to avoid this, we should have a clear strategy for what we want to achieve. We have a clear and well-defined roadmap to the decarbonisation, but we can’t do this from one year to another. We need to do this step by step, and we have several measures to take, and we are doing it.
- We want to reduce our CO2 emissions by half until 2035, and to achieve our carbon neutrality until 2050.
- We already have 100% green electricity, and we achieved this by different methods. The first one was investing in our own photovoltaic parks in our plants, in our facilities, in our warehouses. The second one was PPAs. We have two different PPAs in place. And the third one, for the remaining quantities, we are buying guarantees of origin from the producers.
- Now we are very focused and we are working to reduce the CO2 emissions on the natural gas side. And here we have two different options. The first one is to electrify. The second one is to change our natural gas consumption for greener fuels like hydrogen.
- Electrifying is the most expensive option that we have, because as you know, electricity is more expensive than gas. And to use more electricity, or only electricity in our furnaces, we have to invest in new technologies. So, increasing the capacity.
- And more than that, it ought to be also an investment in furnaces and in technology with less efficiency. So, in the middle term, we will increase our industrial costs with this measure.
- Hydrogen is a good solution, but we need also to invest in our furnaces and we are seeing some difficulties in the network distribution. So, we believe at the moment that the biomethane is ahead of the others. So, biomethane and natural gas have the same molecule, CH4, so it’s a perfect match.
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