Industry accounts for one-third of global energy consumption and remains one of the most difficult sectors to decarbonize. Industry has a unique role to play in the battle against climate change.

Welcome to the Danfoss campus, Wuqing, China. In the last eight years, we have managed to increase energy productivity by 53% and decrease CO2 emissions by 30% at our 87,000m² campus. We have done this by applying the Danfoss three-step approach. We call it: Reduce, reuse, re-source. First, we apply energy efficiency to bring our energy consumption down. Secondly, we reuse the energy that we have already used once. Finally, we look into how we can source what we need from renewable sources. In the last few years, we have implemented more than 100 energy-saving initiatives at this campus.

Since 2016, the factory output has increased by 46% while total energy consumption has decreased by 5%. The annual electricity consumption at Danfoss’ Wuqing campus today is 45 million kWh, which will be fully covered with a power purchase agreement that we made in 2023. The renewable power is produced at a newly constructed solar park located about 20 kilometers from our campus. This power purchase agreement will reduce 28,000 tons of CO2 annually – which means a 23% reduction of Danfoss total scope 1 & 2 emissions in China. This and more efforts will help Danfoss to become CO2-neutral in our global operations by 2030.