Ambev’s Beer Innovation Centre in Rio de Janeiro will be powered by 100% solar energy

To offer innovative technological solutions and added value services. All the grandeur of our mission translated into the construction of a solar energy project that will power the whole of Ambev Brewing Company’s Centre for Innovation and Technology (CIT), in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)’s Technological Park.

The centre will be fuelled by clean and renewable energy, in a project developed by Enel X that covers an area with 2,160 solar panels spread across 4,752sq m. The largest solar plant ever built by Enel X on a roof in the state of Rio de Janeiro.

The partnership between the two companies, highly innovative in this venture, marks another important step by Ambev Brewing Company towards having 100% of its electricity purchased from renewable sources, a target the firm intends to reach by 2025.

The use of the turnkey contracting model, in which Enel X is responsible for all stages of the project, reinforces Ambev Brewing Company’s confidence in the partnership. The result is a project large in scale and environmental impact, able to create savings of more than 1.15 billion litres of water, in addition to avoiding 131 tonnes in CO2 emissions a year, equivalent to the emissions of 131 cars or the planting of 783 new trees.

As well as the environmental benefits, the project, integrated with the electrical grid, achieves other sustainability dimensions: it reduces CIT’s energy consumption by half, reaching 1,090 MWh/year and generating around R$490,000 in savings through the system of credits for the injection of energy generated into the grid of the concessionaire responsible for region’s electricity supply.

Visionary projects like this demonstrate that innovative companies, such as Ambev Brewing Company, can reach their sustainability and efficiency goals with Enel X’s energy solutions.