Global building materials solutions supplier Cemex has embarked on an innovative renewable energy project at the company’s new Alrewas Readymix Plant (Pyford Brook) in Staffordshire, UK.
The scheme which uses a 90kWh battery, along with solar panels, expects to save 200 tonnes of CO2.
As part of Cemex’s company-wide climate action programme, ‘Future in Action’, the Alrewas site installed the hybrid solar unit in a bid to significantly reduce CO2 and the plant’s operational costs. The new facility at Alrewas opened in 2023 without mains electricity which means the site, until recently has been exclusively powered by diesel generators. Keen to reduce CO2 and the reliance on fossil fuels, the Operational Excellence team were quickly able to reduce the night-time diesel generator usage by 68 %, once the renewable power units were installed.
As a result of the success at Alrewas, a second battery and solar unit installation is now planned at Cemex’s Hamer Warren quarry, in the New Forest, Hampshire. The same renewable energy technology will be utilised at Hamer Warren to reduce diesel consumption during the plant’s onsite pumping activities.
