{"id":47020,"date":"2021-08-10T14:27:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T18:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/?p=47020"},"modified":"2022-06-28T11:20:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T15:20:15","slug":"winds-of-change-we-purchase-100-renewable-energy-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/winds-of-change-100-renewable-energy-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Winds of Change: We Purchase 100% Renewable Energy in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"

All Samsung’s facilities in the United States, including its manufacturing and distribution sites, use renewable energy. This is how it works:<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Samsung Semiconductor\u2019s on-site rooftop solar array<\/p><\/div>\n

Today, there are over 20,000 employees in the Samsung family across 46 states, with six major subsidiaries based in California, New Jersey, South Carolina, and Texas.<\/p>\n

The business lines of each of our staff facilities may also be completely different from each other, with varying requirements for each building. For instance, managing our offices at our Samsung Electronics America headquarters in New Jersey looks very different from managing our Samsung Semiconductor facility in Texas, or our Samsung Home Appliance Manufacturing Plant in South Carolina.<\/p>\n

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Samsung Home Appliances Manufacturing Facility in Newberry, SC<\/p><\/div>\n

Regardless of the breadth and scope of our U.S. subsidiaries, they all have one thing in common:<\/p>\n

All of our Samsung U.S. facilities use 100% renewable energy.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Our 100% renewable energy currently comes from sources like Wind, Solar, Biomass and Green-e\u00ae certified Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs).<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Since our 2018 commitment to switch all of our energy to renewables, our U.S. subsidiaries not only established wind power as an energy source, but together also installed solar power capacity, recovered biomass, and purchased Green-e\u00ae certified Renewable Energy Certificates<\/a> (RECs).<\/p>\n

For example, in 2019 our Samsung Austin Semiconductor manufacturing facility established 75 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy<\/a> produced by a new large-scale wind farm. Our Samsung Semiconductor U.S. headquarters in San Jose additionally generates electricity from an on-site rooftop solar array. In 2020, 692,569 kilowatts (kWh) of energy were supplied by those solar panels.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Our goal is to claim 100% renewable power through new localized generation sources by early 2024.<\/p>

Jason Maas<\/span>- Facilities Electrical Director at Samsung Austin Semiconductor<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/blockquote>
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Our Samsung U.S. subsidiaries also purchase Green-e\u00ae certified Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs)<\/a>. Green-e\u00ae certified renewable energy meets the highest standards in North America: it must be generated from new facilities that meet rigorous standards for environmental quality, marketed with complete transparency and accuracy, and delivered to a single purchaser, who has sole title. To explain why this is necessary in simple terms \u2013 energy doesn\u2019t know where it came from once it was delivered to a larger shared power grid, so Green-e\u00ae certified RECs are an important and credible way to bring about more renewable energy by ensuring that the amount of energy used by a company has also been purchased from a certified, renewable source, and not double-counted. Naturally, the goal is that eventually the energy market becomes 100% renewable itself, so that RECs are rendered unnecessary.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Samsung Electronics is an excellent example for other organizations in reducing greenhouse gas emissions through green power investment and use.<\/p>

James Critchfield<\/span>- Program Manager of the EPA's Green Power Partnership<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/blockquote>
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Samsung Austin Semiconductor Facility<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cSamsung Austin Semiconductor has been investing in Green energy since 2000*. Initially, we purchased Green-e certified RECs from local renewable sources to accomplish our 100% renewable goal. However, our true mission is to work with developers to add new, large-scale renewable generation sources to the Texas ERCOT grid to offset our load completely. Our goal is to claim 100% renewable power through new localized generation sources by early 2024,” says Jason Maas, Facilities Electrical Director at Samsung Austin Semiconductor.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our close partnerships with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA) help us get this right.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Samsung has had a unique, long-standing partnership with the EPA. Here are some of our joint initiatives:<\/p>\n