Spotlight Target Area: Energy
Becoming a member of Origin Green in 2016, Sam Dennigan established an in-house
Origin Green team to set ambitious but achievable sustainability targets. Due to the
enthusiastic and steadfast commitment of this team, eleven Origin Green milestone
targets were met in 2020 with exemplary performances demonstrated in the areas of
packaging, energy, water and community engagement. Sam Dennigan acknowledges
its responsibility to the environment and to the local communities in which it works
and does business. The company actively encourages its staff to recognise those
responsibilities alongside the importance of the company’s role toward the society in
which it functions. Within the energy target area, Sam Dennigan set a target to reduce
energy usage by 37% by 2020 based on a 2014 baseline, the company exceeded its
target, having reached a 50% reduction on electricity usage per unit output compared
to the baseline year. This reduction in energy usage was supported by a rooftop solar
PV installation on its distribution centre in Oldtown, Co. Dublin.
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