2. - is a craft brewery; located in Fort
Collins, Colorado.
-NEW BELGIUM IS A CERTIFIED B CORP
- produced 914,000 barrels of its various labels.
-the fifth-largest craft brewery eighth-largest
overall brewery in the United States
3.
4. WE’RE NEW
BELGIUM
AND WE POLLUTE
• Using fossil fuels
• Using pure water
• Electricity and natural gas
consumed
5. -Investing in efficient equipment,
-Harvesting waste energy through heat exchangers &
energy storage tanks,
-Designing with conservation in mind, they have
been able to greatly decrease their energy needs.
6. -Smart Grid technology at the Fort Collins brewery
-Smart Grid enables a 2-way flow of both energy
and information
-For example, they can elect to shut down their
building HVAC system for a short period of time
7. BIOGAS. onsite Process Water Treatment Plant , microbes clean all
production waste-water through a series of aerobic and anaerobic basins.
A by-product of this process - methane-rich biogas - is harvested and
piped back to the brewery. they're literally turning waste into energy.
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9. SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAICS.
-1,235 solar photovoltaic (PV) panels covering the roof Packaging Hall .
This equates to just about 300 kilowatts of electricity, or roughly 4.5% of
their annual electricity needs
SOLAR THERMAL. A solar hot water system on the roof of their
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11. -They have taxed themselves on purchased electricity
consumption.
-This money is reserved for energy efficiency and onsite
renewable energy projects here at the brewery that help
to directly reduce New Belgium's reliance on fossil fuels.
–They have been saving up this money for a few years
now to invest in some big efficiency improvements to
our brewery.
