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Sony To Source All Its Energy From Renewables By 2040 (nikkei.com)
Sony is the latest multinational conglomerate corporation to announce plans to have all its energy come from renewable sources by 2040. Nikkei Asian Review reports: The electronics company has 111 business sites around the world. Renewables will supply all power used not only in manufacturing televisions and cameras, but also in such content creation work as moviemaking. The goal will be achieved through such means as installing solar panels atop production facilities and purchasing green-certified power. Sony will gradually increase use of such energy, aiming first for a rate of 30% in 2030. Sony has already gone fully green in Europe. But 80% of the group's energy consumption is in Japan, mainly because of semiconductor manufacturing. Purchasing solar power facilities will likely be pursued as well.
No, they buy offsets produced by renewable sources that match their usage in the grid. That makes their claim valid, that the amount of power they use is produced from renewables they pay for specifically.
Which large companies are doing this is "a couple of years" (i.e. about two)?
I was going to object to the mockery of Sony taking 22 years to reach 100%, since it is arguable that a huge globe spanning operation might take that long to get to 100%. But in TFA I see this:
... up from the current level of 7% ... Sony will gradually increase use of such energy, aiming first for a rate of 30% in 2030.
Gradually indeed! Taking 12 years to get from 7% to 30%? This is not an aggressive plan, to say the least.
Second class citizen of the New Gilded Age
while using 100% renewable energy