AB Volvo has decided to make Volvo Trucks’ plant in Tuve the world’s first CO2-free automotive plant.
As a result of investments in wind power and biofuel, the plant’s electricity and heat will come from sources that do not emit any carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. “The Greenhouse Effect is a reality and the automotive industry has a specific responsibility for coping with emissions of carbon dioxide,” says Volvo’s Chief Executive Officer Leif Johansson. Combined with efforts to achieve energy savings of up to 20%, Volvo, in cooperation with Goteborg Energi is currently building five large wind power plants and a new biofuel plant adjacent to the Tuve plant. The five wind power plants alone will increase the amount of wind-power generated electricity in Sweden by 4%.
When the plant does not fully utilize the produced electricity and heat, the surplus energy will be distributed to other customers via the district heating and electricity network. The wind power plants and the new biofuel plant are scheduled for completion during 2007. “This is not solely an admirable environmental effort,” says Leif Johansson. “We also expect that it will eventually be profitable on a purely commercial basis.”
Volvo’s ambition is to make more of its manufacturing plants CO2-free.
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