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Producing our own
renewable energy
In November 2020, Gabriel’s part-owned dyehouse, Scandye,
established a solar power system with an estimated annual
production of 396 MWh. In 2022/23, Scandye expanded the
system to an estimated annual production of 702 MWh. This
means that the production of renewable energy corresponded to approximately 22% of the dyehouse’s annual electricity
consumption in 2022/2023. In the beginning of 2023/24, yet
another solar power system will be installed, increasing the
production to 852 MWh per year, which corresponds to approximately 38% of the dyehouse’s annual electricity consumption.
In the first quarter of the financial year 2022/2023, a solar
panel system was also installed on the roof of Gabriel’s secondlargest electricity consumer after the dyehouse, the textile mill
Gabriel Textiles, with an estimated annual production of 466
MWh, equivalent to about one-third of the textile mill’s annual
consumption.
Likewise, in the third quarter of the financial year 2022/2023,
a solar panel system was installed at Gabriel’s headquarters
in Aalborg. The system has an estimated annual production
of 152 MWh, which accounts for over half of the annual electricity consumption at the headquarters.
In the coming years, Gabriel plans to expand its in-houseproduction of renewable electricity by, among other things,
establishing solar panels locally at other Gabriel-owned production companies. To avoid the use of land, the solar panels
will primarily be installed on the roofs of the companies when
possible.
The solar panels will be primarily installed
on the companies’ roofs as a first priority
to avoid using land.
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