Salus Sustainability Report 2021 - Report - Page 24
Direct environmental impact
100%
RENEWABLE
Electricity.
Key indicators on power consumption:
Page 72 – diagram 01 (Salus)
Page 74 – diagram 13 (Schoenenberger)
Own generation and purchase
Back in 1968, long before “renewable power” became a household
name, Salus made a conscious decision to move the company to
Bruckmühl. Here, we can generate clean electricity from hydroelectric power. Our motto: Electrical power should be gener
ated where it is used — in a sustainable and renewable fashion.
Whenever we grow our production, we also expand our power
generation capacities. Every year, our Bruckmühl site generates an
average of 2.5 million kWh of eco-friendly electricity.. As a result,
we manage to cover up to 90% of our power costs ourselves.
In Magstadt, we generate approx. 700,000 kWh of eco-friendly
electricity per year using solar energy.
Consumption
Climate change has resulted in a significant increase in our cooling needs in recent years. Our ventilation and air conditioning
demand has risen accordingly. When expanding our liquid and extract production facilities in Bruckmühl, we invested in a modern
and highly efficient ventilation and centralised air conditioning
system, which was designed to also supply the existing buildings.
This highly efficient system produces up to 14 kWh of cold from
1 kWh of electricity. In spite of these measures, the Bruckmühl
site has seen an increase in specific power consumption of approx. 16%1. In the next few years, we plan to reduce this consumption by introducing smart building technology and optimising our
energy needs.
At our Magstadt site, a free night cooling system was installed in
2019, which significantly brought down the amount of electricity
used for cooling purposes.
SALUS
NEUTRAL
1968
1
Expansion of the PV
system by 87 kWp
2nd hydroelectric
plant
1st PV system
SCHOENENBERGER
CO2
1st hydroelectric
plant
1992
2008
Expansion of the PV
system by 57 kWp
2014
2017
2020
RESULT
•
1st PV
system
Expansion of the PV
system by 151 kW
compared to 2017
47
•
•
ydropower: 3 hydroturH
bines (installed capacity
428 kW)
SALUS PV system: 447 kWp
Schoenenberger PV
system: 686 kWp
