Nordzucker Post 01/2023 - 6 February 2023

GoGreen – Our path to climate neutrality

Nordzucker has set itself ambitious targets for the coming years: Phasing out coal by 2030 and CO₂ neutrality in production by 2050 at the latest. Already by 2030, direct CO₂ emissions are to be halved compared to the average emissions of the years 2017-2019.

The GoGreen program takes three approaches to shaping a sustainable energy supply for Nordzucker. The measures are interlinked: by 2030, there will be a switch from coal and oil to alternative fuels with lower CO₂ emissions, predominantly natural gas. At the same time, energy requirements will be reduced with new technologies, modernizations and optimized heat and energy management, so that even less CO₂ will be emitted. A roadmap is currently being developed for each European plant.

As sugar production remains energy-intensive, the third component is the development of renewable energy sources. Here, for example, the use of beet pulp to generate biogas opens up the possibility of covering a large part of the energy required in the future. Technical and regulatory hurdles are to be overcome in current and future projects in order to exploit this potential.