Avery Dennison has signed a wind power purchase agreement (PPA) with Apex Clean Energy to offset 50% of the company’s US-based greenhouse gas emissions derived from electricity consumption. Under the agreement with Apex’s Perryton Wind - a 299.91 MW wind energy project to be located in Ochiltree County, Texas - Avery Dennison will purchase 20 MW of renewable energy capacity. The PPA is a key component of Avery Dennison’s 2025 sustainability goal to reduce absolute greenhouse gas emissions from its operations by at least 3% annually, and by at least 26% overall between 2015 and 2025.
Roland Simon, vice president of global procurement and global sustainability leader at Avery Dennison, said: “It’s important for us to optimise renewable energy sources in a way that ripples outward to create change that encompasses far more than our own business.”