We believe a brighter future is possible, one that uses renewable electricity to mitigate the impacts of climate change. You just have to be 100% committed to make change happen.

As the first step in our journey, we’ve committed that every Budweiser around the world will be brewed with 100% renewable electricity by 2025. We’re proud of where we’ve chosen to start – while this commitment represents only one part of our supply chain, the potential impact is equivalent to taking 48,000 passenger vehicles off the road every year*.

To celebrate our achievements in each market, we’re launching a symbol that indicates when Budweiser has been brewed using renewable electricity.

But we can make a bigger impact beyond Budweiser – that’s why we’re encouraging other companies to adopt the symbol to celebrate their own paths toward renewable electricity.

Scroll down to learn more or visit our FAQ.

You can also get in touch at budweiser@renewablefuture.com.

  • *source: epa.gov. Based on Budweiser’s 2016 annual energy footprint in its largest 8 markets, the amount of purchased electricity needed to brew Budweiser is approximately 1,251 million megajoules/year, or 347,583 MWh/year. This equates to a carbon footprint of 226,145 tonnes CO2-equilavent. AB InBev has made a commitment to source all purchased electricity required for brewing from renewable sources by 2025. According to the EPA tool, 347,583 MWh is the equivalent of taking 48,000 passenger vehicles off the road every year.

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USA

In March 2017 the US set a new renewable energy record with wind and solar sources accounting for 10% of total electricity generation*. While this is an exciting development and shows a real appetite for a greener future, more can be done – and Budweiser will continue to show its support with renewable electricity projects across the country. The Budweiser Wind Farm at Thunder Ranch will lead the way, powering 100% of Budweiser’s total purchased electricity for brewing in the US starting in 2018*.

*source: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/solar-wind-renewable-energy-record/
*source: http://www.renewablefuture.com/anheuser-busch-and-enel-green-power-announce-renewable-energy-partnership/

UK

The UK is one of the world’s fastest-growing markets for renewable electricity, and Budweiser will accelerate it even further through the purchase of free origin guarantees (or renewable electricity certificates). But that’s just the short term – over the next two years, the company will be supporting the construction of a number of renewable projects…pushing the UK even closer to its vision of a completely renewable future, and one in which 100% of the electricity required to brew Budweiser in the UK will come from renewable sources by 2025*.

BRAZIL

Hydroelectric plants account for more than 70% of Brazil’s electric energy and the government has supported the development of alternatives such as wind and solar*. However, companies have a big part to play as well – and Budweiser is taking on the challenge. By 2025, 100% of Budweiser’s electricity needs for brewing in Brazil will come from renewable sources, mostly from on-site and near-site solar generation*.

ARGENTINA

Argentina’s government declared 2017 “The Year of Renewable Energy” and has committed to increasing the share of renewables in its power mix to 20% by 2025*.

This is a significant step for a county whose current power mix comes largely from natural gas, a particular concern in recent years as supplies continue to diminish and blackouts occur across the country. Budweiser is a key ally in this quest for a greener future, and also has committed to upping its renewable electricity game…brewing with 100% renewable electricity in Argentina by 2025*.

SOUTH AFRICA

South Africa is the perfect market for renewables to show their full potential. It’s estimated that only 3000 square kilometres of land used for solar panels would provide enough energy to cover the entire country’s demand.

AUSTRALIA

In Australia, CUB which proudly brews Budweiser locally, is also adopting renewable energy as the way forward with the signing of a 12-year Power Purchase Agreement with German renewable energy developer, service provider and wholesaler, BayWa r.e –, enough to power 7,500 homes. This initiative has created hundreds of jobs through construction and will create opportunities for long term employment through the solar farm’s ongoing operation and maintenance.

There will also be onsite solar generation, which will see solar panels installed at each of their breweries, including Yatala in Queensland, Abbotsford in Victoria and Cascade in Tasmania.

CHILE

Today, Chile imports Budweiser from the US, where the beer is brewed with 100% renewable electricity from wind power, thanks to a 50,000 acre wind farm in Oklahoma. In 2019, we will transition to producing Budweiser locally in Chile, continuing our commitment to brew with 100% renewable electricity. South America already boasts the cleanest energy in the world and Chile is no exception. With ambitious geothermal projects alongside its vast solar and wind farms Chile has the potential to become a renewable energy icon on the global stage.

Hoy Chile importa Budweiser desde USA, donde la cerveza es producida con 100% electricidad renovable proveniente de la energía del viento, generada en un parque eólico de más de 200 km2 en Oklahoma. El 2019 comenzaremos a producir Budweiser en nuestra planta en Chile, y mantendremos nuestro compromiso de producir con 100% electricidad renovable. Sudamérica ya cuenta con ambiciosos proyectos para impulsar el uso de energías renovables, y Chile no es excepción. La energía geotérmica, la eólica y la solar son grandes exponentes en nuestro país, que nos permiten convertir a Chile en un ícono más en este compromiso global de Budweiser.

MEXICO

Mexico imports Budweiser from the US, where the beer is brewed with 100% renewable electricity from wind power, thanks to a 50,000 acre wind farm in Oklahoma. For those brands brewed locally, a Power Purchase Agreement with Iberdrola was signed in 2017 for 490 gigawatt-hours per year. The agreement with Iberdrola is also expected to increase Mexico’s wind and solar energy capacity by more than 5%.  Iberdrola will build and install 220 MW of wind energy capacity onshore in the state of Puebla in 2019.

INDIA

India is the world’s third largest consumer of electricity and currently 17% of its power comes from renewables. However the potential for renewables and in particular solar power is phenomenal, if India were to reach its full solar energy potential, given it has on average 300 clear days a year, it could generate 1000x the national energy requirement.

Budweiser has already begun its adoption of solar power at its Mysore brewery, meaning all Budweiser brewed in the region is brewed with 100% renewable electricity from solar power.

In addition, as part of its commitment to a brighter future for the communities in which it operates, Budweiser has committed to adopt Malliyuru village located near the brewery in Mysore by providing solar powered streetlights, solar rickshaws and solar powered water purification units expected to benefit to over 3700 people across 3 neighboring villages.

CHINA

China is the global leader in renewable energy. It has the largest solar, wind and hydro electricity production in the world and promises to invest more than $360 billion by 2020.

AB Inbev has transformed its Putian brewery, the largest brewing facility in Asia, into a cutting-edge green brewery by making significant investments in the use of clean energy, heat recovery and water conservation at the site. This includes 150,000-square-meters of photovoltaic panels (the same as 21 football pitches) and is the largest on-site photovoltaic power station in the Asia beer industry.

SOUTH KOREA

Budweiser in South Korea is brewed by the Oriental Brewery (OB) which brews over 1,120,000 KLE of beer every year. South Korea is expected to triple it’s renewable energy capacity by 2030.

NIGERIA

Nigeria is currently only able to supply energy to half of the country. Renewables provide a perfect off-grid solution to deliver power for the rest of the population.

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Why is Budweiser making this commitment?

At Budweiser, we believe our global brand can play a role in driving positive change. Just as we are committed to brewing the highest quality beer – a drink that has been bringing people together for thousands of years – we are also 100% committed to creating a brighter, cleaner future that ensures beer can continue to be enjoyed for thousands of years to come.

By 2025 all Budweiser around the world will be brewed with 100% renewable electricity, in line with our parent company AB InBev’s commitment to achieve 100% of purchased electricity from renewables by 2025*. We sell 41 million bottles of Budweiser on average every day, so Budweiser’s commitment will equate to taking 48,000 passenger vehicles off the road every year!

The renewable electricity symbol enables consumers to make more educated choices about the everyday products they buy, thus supporting a brighter future for all

What does 100% renewable electricity mean?

Renewable electricity is electricity that is purchased from resources which are naturally replenished, such as solar and wind power.

What do the words ‘brewed with’ mean?

The renewable electricity symbol indicates that 100% of the elements of the Budweiser brewing process that are reliant on electricity have come from renewable sources such as wind or solar power.

As part of our renewable electricity commitment, Budweiser will ensure the electricity element of the brewing process in all its operations around the world comes from renewable sources by 2025*.

How much of the energy used in your brewing process comes from electricity?

To brew the perfect beer, we need a mixture of energy – both electricity and heat. Nearly one third of our brewing comes from electricity, while the rest comes from heat.

We’ve decided to start our journey with the electricity that goes into brewing the beer itself. While this commitment represents only one part of our supply chain, by 2025 the impact will be equivalent to taking 48,000 passenger vehicles off the road every year*.

  • *source: epa.gov. Based on Budweiser’s 2016 annual energy footprint in its largest 8 markets, the amount of purchased electricity needed to brew Budweiser is approximately 1,251 million megajoules/year, or 347,583 MWh/year. This equates to a carbon footprint of 226,145 tonnes CO2-equilavent. AB InBev has made a commitment to source all purchased electricity required for brewing from renewable sources by 2025. According to the EPA tool, 347,583 MWh is the equivalent of taking 48,000 passenger vehicles off the road every year.
What is the source of the remaining energy used in brewing not covered by this announcement?

At Budweiser, the quality and taste of our beer is always paramount but we are looking to innovate the supply-chain and production processes towards a sustainable future.

The thermal energy from the brewing process comes from a mixture of energy sources including natural gas, which we are still dependent on. However, we have been increasing our usage of low carbon sources such as biogas and landfill gas.

Why does Budweiser care?

A healthy climate is critical to the ingredients needed to brew beer – water, barley malt, rice, yeast and hops. So, climate change has implications for our company and for the communities where we live and work. We are committed to helping drive change by brewing our beer with renewable electricity, benefitting both the environment and our business.

We have the opportunity to play a leading role in the battle against climate change by purchasing electricity in a more sustainable way.

How are you substantiating your commitment?

Our projects’ electricity generation will be controlled by on-line metering using the latest technologies. Not only will this information feed our energy teams’ controls, but it will also be validated by grid regulators such as the Southwest Power Pool in Oklahoma, US.

We will report our progress on an annual basis to RE100*.

When will the label be on the shelves for consumers in the US?

The label will be available on all Budweisers brewed in the US beginning in May 2018.

What is your rollout plan for reaching 100% renewable electricity globally? When are the next markets due to reach 100%?

We’re 100% committed to a brighter future for all which is why we have committed that by 2025 every Budweiser around the world will be brewed with 100% renewable electricity*.

The 100% renewable electricity symbol will first appear in the U.S – the first country where Budweiser is brewed using 100% renewable electricity from wind power

Besides buying Budweiser, how can consumers be part of this campaign?

By choosing Budweiser or any other product with the renewable electricity symbol, consumers can support a brighter future for all.

Please visit the “GET INVOLVED” section to learn how you can take further action to support renewable electricity.

This is just the beginning – we are 100% committed to creating a brighter future for generations to come and as the symbol rolls out across different markets we will create market specific campaigns for consumers.

Can other companies or brands use the symbol?

Yes! We want to help build and be a part of a movement and encourage other brands, products and services to communicate their own path towards renewably powered electricity. Please email us at budweiser@renewablefuture.com for more information.

The renewable electricity symbol is a celebration of renewable electricity rather than a prescriptive certification, so other companies must have their own means of verifying their renewable electricity usage and take responsibility for their own claims. We are working with Accenture who are providing a scalable model that we believe can be adopted by other brands.

We developed the symbol with the intention of making it freely available to other companies. In making it available, we will not provide certification or substantiation of other companies’ renewable electricity claims. The use of this symbol by other companies in the future should not be construed to mean that we are responsible for or endorsing any such product or company claim.

How exactly will you achieve 100% renewable electricity in your markets?

The primary sources of renewable electricity will be wind and solar energy. Our sources will vary from market to market based on local capacity, skills, infrastructure maturity and technical feasibility.

We have turbines and solar panels at some of our factory sites, but the majority of our renewable electricity will come from off-site generation through Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) and Virtual Power Purchase Agreements (VPPAs).

The electricity required to brew Budweiser is significant due to its time-honored process, which means that we cannot supply it from on-site brewery sources alone*. In the U.S. The Budweiser Wind Farm at Thunder Ranch in Oklahoma (powered by Enel Green Power) is 50,000 acres generating the equivalent electricity to power 50,000 U.S. households*.

Does the electricity you buy go directly to your brewing operations?

Through a Virtual Power Purchase Agreement (VPPA), we are working with renewable energy developers to offset 100% of our electricity use.  In the U.S. we are doing this by sourcing renewable electricity from an off-site facility that adds green energy to the grid.

VPPAs allow for generation of the renewable energy in areas where the wind and solar resources are strong and the technology efficiency is maximized.

VPPAs do not impact local operations, local suppliers or the way that AB InBev sources electricity locally. Cogeneration will not be impacted as the commitment applies to purchased electricity only.

 

 

BY 2025, ALL BUDWEISER WILL BE BREWED WITH 100% RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY
But how do we generate all that electricity? While we build renewable infrastructure on-site at our breweries
whenever we can, approximately 70% of it will come from off-site Power Purchase Agreements.
This is how they work…

We brew a lot of Budweiser each year – about 15 billion 330ml servings. And to do that we need lots of electricity.

But our breweries don’t always have enough space for the renewable electricity we need.

To reach our ambitious goal, we need a little help from our friends. This help is called a Power Purchase Agreement.

Budweiser is working with experts in the renewable energy industry to build big-scale renewable projects such as wind and solar farms.

Around the world, these projects will play a significant role in increasing the renewable electricity to local power grids and in bringing additionality (or new renewable infrastructure) to the market.

Through Power Purchase Agreements, we are able to buy the electricity generated by these projects at a fixed rate that helps our business as well as our communities.

Creating new sources of renewable electricity that wouldn’t have existed otherwise, and paving the way for others to go renewable as well.

Budweiser’s 2025 goal is the equivalent of taking 48,000 passenger vehicles off the road every year. This is the start of our journey toward a brighter future.

How are you addressing the rest of your carbon footprint? 

In addition to AB InBev’s corporate commitment to secure 100% of our purchased electricity from renewable sources, we are also working across our entire value chain to reduce our impact. Our goal is that by 2025 we will reduce carbon emissions across our value chain by 25%, which is a SCIENCE-BASED TARGET*. Reaching this goal will be the equivalent of taking more than a million and a half cars off the road every year.*

We are always seeking new ways to innovate our supply chain to be more sustainable and efficient. For example, we announced last year that we have reserved 40 Tesla all-electric Semi trucks to help lower our environmental impact*.

We are constantly looking for ways to increase the recycled material in our packaging, support recovery and re-use of bottles and reduce the amount of material in our packaging through actions such as light-weighting our containers. By 2025 100% of our products around the world will be in packaging that is returnable or made from majority recycled content.

Another contributor to our carbon footprint is refrigeration. This year, 96% of our cooler purchases met the standards we set for environmentally friendly coolers.

Will the price of Budweiser change as a result of this campaign?

No, the price will remain the same.

What are PPAs?

Learn more here.

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