by Rebecca Walker — January 12, 2009— As part of its global commitment to corporate responsibility and sustainability, Coca-Cola Enterprises is nearly complete with a major lighting retrofit project to reduce energy consumption in its California facilities.
The project will decrease CCE’s energy consumption for lighting by 5.6 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) a year, with the potential to decrease 113 million kilowatt-hours over the 20-year life of the new system. The project has earned CCE the Orion Energy Systems Environmental Stewardship Award.
It entailed replacing more than 4,000 high-intensity discharge (HID) and fluorescent lights with Orion’s Compact Modular, high-intensity fluorescent (HIF) system at 24 Coca-Cola Enterprises facilities throughout California.
CCE also has installed solar power generating panels on the roof of its Los Angeles facility, has committed to make all sales and marketing equipment on average 20 percent more energy efficient by 2010, and has ten hybrid electric trucks delivering product to customers throughout Los Angeles. In all, CCE has 142 hybrid electric delivery trucks, giving it the largest fleet of heavy-duty hybrid delivery trucks in North America.
For more information, see the Orion Energy Systems Inc. Web site and the Coca-Cola Enterprises Web site.
