The Bigger Picture: Decarbonization | Audi site Györ
Hi I’m Sebastian copelan and I would like to take you on a Journey in this episode I will travel to the Audi plant in gear and find out how the company is achieving its goal to become carbon neutral and balance in production and how Innovation is helping along the way so come along let’s check it out we are here in September and it’s uh 31°
It’s something Changing how committed is Audi to decarbonization as an automaker we implemented our energy management system with the with the aim to reduce our energy consumption and to improve the energy efficiencies we are using green electricity and greener energy so we have clear strategic targets all of the Audi production facilities should be
Carbon neutral and balance by 2025 uh Audi Hungaria has already achieved this Target in 2020 what type of programs do you have with that respect we are actively working on decarbonization issues I can mention here for example our photovoltaic project and all of this up there is your
Rooftop you will see it we see it it’s pretty substantial oh wow yeah that’s yeah so here we are and it’s only one part of that so it’s it’s doubled on the other side I think it’s a great solution for having green energy on board all of this was
Built in 2020 the project began in 2019 okay and uh we finished the project in 2020 so wow this is a substantial footprint what’s the output so it’s together is um 12 megawatt Peak capacity which means that is one of the biggest rooftop solar Park in Europe 12 megawatt
12 megawatt Peaks and it lays on 160,000 square m which is quite a huge area we can neutralize approximately 9,500 tons CO2 yearly with the device it’s a clear sign of our commitment to using green energies and to decarbonize our actions but uh beside these huge projects we are um continuously
Improving our performance for example heat recover is a really important issue at Hungaria because um during the production there are so many waste Heats and we try to utilize that waste heat that’s very interesting yeah so what you you suck the heat in and then you distribute it elsewhere yeah with them
We can lower our CO2 emissions because we do not have to produce the heat again uh it will be a rotational heat exchanger we use that waste heat from that After Burner process to preheat the air the fresh air for the painting cabines I will go inside first okay
Wow yeah this is very wild and that’s that’s the rotational he C fresh air comes from here there you Chang it there yeah yeah very interesting wow we are the largest enery Manufacturing Company in the world and we are in a transition so we are changing our production lines from the
Combustion engines to the electric power trains of course if we are talking about sustainability producing an electric power train uses less energy and it means less decarbonization issues so you’re you’re reducing your energy consumption through the production line here yeah we have the opportunity to gather data from that we can analyze
Them and we can uh think after how can we uh make it better so for us it’s important to make an optimal solution between economical and ecological uh demands this is George GMA project and um it is uh initiated by Audi and paneri together and what’s the um the energy
Output yeah relatively High yearly 90,000 megawatt hours per year which is a quite huge amount that is a big amount yeah yeah it’s a big big amount and uh the share of this geothermal energy in our heating system is quite expanding and in 22 23 winter period we were able
To cover all of our uh heating needs uh toally without using natural gas that only with gel THM that’s remarkable yeah it’s remarkable so 100% green energy in heating so this is the epicenter of energy distribution for the entire plant right here right right this is the part
Of the energy distribution system at Ali Hungaria it’s called our Energy Center here are the heat heat exchangers with exchange with the internal system the Heat and is distributed from that place to uh various parts of the site we of course continuously monitoring the consumption and these data points are
Very useful for us to monitor our efficiency on that issue because uh there is every time a possibility to to reduce your energy consumption to improve your Energy Efficiency just to give you uh one Insight in the field of electricity we have a little bit more than 5,000 uh measuring points at the
Side and if uh there is an optimization issue or idea then we should implement it because uh we believe that the best energy is the energy that haven’t been used
Follow us to Hungary, where Europe’s largest rooftop photovoltaic system is just one of the measures demonstrating how the Audi site in Györ achieved net carbon neutrality on balance* in production as early as 2020. See for yourself in our latest episode of “The Bigger Picture.”
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*Audi defines net carbon neutrality as a status where, despite having exploited other possible reduction measures in relation to CO₂ emissions caused by our products or activities, remaining and/or currently unavoidable CO₂ emissions in connection with the supply chain, manufacturing or recycling of our vehicles are, at least in terms of quantity, offset by voluntary compensation projects worldwide. CO₂ emissions generated during the operational phase of a vehicle (i.e. as of the time the vehicle is handed over to the customer) are not taken into account.
