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Energy Management
Our global energy team coordinates energy management across the company. The team meets regularly and comprises members of facilities management, Environment, Health and Safety and procurement.
We are reducing our energy use as part of our commitment to tackling climate change. We are systematic in the way we seek energy savings in all our facilities.
In 2010, we introduced green procurement guidelines to ensure that we source energy efficient and environmentally preferable products worldwide. Read more about these guidelines and our Green Buildings Strategy.
Examples of energy-saving measures implemented at our sites in 2010 include:
- Creating teams to promote energy saving at sites
- Conducting inspections to ensure lights are turned off at night
- Upgrading lighting in offices and production facilities
- Matching lighting more closely with building occupancy
- Turning off elevators at night and during weekends
- Increasing maintenance of air handling units
- Upgrading and improving the efficiency of compressors
- Optimizing pressure levels on manufacturing equipment
- Upgrading controls, removing unnecessary pumps and de-scaling evaporator coils on chillers
- Using natural cooling (free cooling) in winter instead of cooling provided by chillers
- Upgrading to a more energy efficient humidity system
- Increasing the temperature in IT rooms to reduce the demand for cooling
- Improving building management systems to optimize controls
Our site in Chennai, India, which opened in 2008, achieved Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification (silver rating), which recognizes environmental excellence in buildings, including energy management.
In 2010, Motorola Mobility used 262 million kilowatt hours of energy, a 33 percent decrease from 394 million kilowatt hours in 2005.
These figures are based on:
1. Actual data covering 78 percent of total floor space in 2010, and 59 percent in 2005
2. Estimated impact based on average energy per square foot for the remaining percent
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We accomplished this reduction by implementing energy-saving measures, and consolidating facilities. This excludes reductions due to businesses that were divested during this time period.
Renewable energy
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In 2010, around 27 percent of our global electricity came from renewable sources. Our goal is to increase our purchase of electricity from renewable sources to 30 percent by 2020.
In addition to the 10 percent of renewable energy available by default in the power grid, about 17 percent of our global electricity came from voluntary purchases. This includes Green-e certified renewable energy certificates (RECs) purchased from wind power in the U.S. The U.S. RECs are purchased from NativeEnergy in North Dakota, which supports Native American, farmer-owned, community-based renewable energy projects helping create social, economic and environmental benefits.
For the second consecutive year, Motorola received a Green Power Leadership Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for our commitment to renewable energy, and for the first time we were one of only four organizations nationwide to be chosen as Green Power Partner of the year. In addition, the company qualified for the EPA’s Green Power Leadership Club for purchasing 30 percent of our U.S. electricity from renewable sources. This distinction is given to organizations that have significantly exceeded the EPA’s minimum purchase requirements.
Motorola currently ranks No. 50 on the EPA’s National Top 50 List, highlighting some of America’s largest green power purchasers.