Kroger Saves Energy with LED Lights in Stores

Environmental Leader provided excellent coverage of the Recent Kroger Sustainability report.

The Kroger Co. has reduced energy consumption in its stores by more than 27 percent since 2000, according to the company’s 2010 Sustainability Report . The grocery retailer says that is enough electricity to power every single family home in Memphis, Tenn., for one year.Kroger has saved company wide more than 1.9 billion kilowatt hours, which equals 1.36 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions. The grocery retail chain says this equates to taking more than 260,000 cars off roads for one year.

Kroger’s 2010 goal is to reduce energy use in its stories by 30 percent from a baseline year of 2000. The company also set targets to reduce waste to landfills in manufacturing facilities by 50 percent, cut water use in manufacturing facilities by 10 percent, and recycle more than 25 million pounds of plastic in 2010.

Kroger’s new stores consume 25 percent less energy than a store built in 2000 thanks to several energy-efficiency measures including replacing lighting with LED fixtures, which use 75 percent less energy. By the end of 2010, LED lighting will be installed in nearly every Kroger store.

The grocery retailer also is installing motion sensors, skylights and control systems to monitor and control energy use in the store’s refrigeration, HVAC and lighting systems.

The company’s first store achieved the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED certification in 2009. The store has set a goal to recycle at least 70 percent of the store’s total waste, including paper, glass, plastic, cardboard and metal.

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