2020 year-end figures
Energy consumption
Renewable electricity
Net emissions footprint
(Scope 1 & 2)
Value chain emission intensity per €m revenue
(Scope 3)
Climate change is a global challenge that requires urgent action by everyone, including us.
Our goal is to achieve net zero emissions. We're committed to decreasing our greenhouse gas emissions and reducing our carbon footprint across our operations as well as in our value chain, by enhancing the energy efficiency of our products and our property.
Energy efficiency of our products
We aim to invent, develop and manufacture our products in a more environmentally friendly way, striving to make sure that our products are manufactured and can be operated responsibly across their entire life cycle.
By 2025, we aim to reduce the energy use per wafer of our future-generation EUV NXE systems by 60% (compared to the NXE:3400). So far, we have achieved over 25% energy reduction. The absolute energy consumption has decreased, while productivity has increased significantly. Work continues on several other energy reduction initiatives, including a pilot for energy reduction of the hydrogen abatement system and more efficient vacuum pumps.
With our latest EUV systems now at the point of high-volume production, reducing their energy use is a priority for us, our customers and suppliers.
To achieve our efficiency goals, we need to overcome technical challenges that have no precedent anywhere in the world. Solving these challenges requires ongoing innovation and relies on increased collaboration with our customers, suppliers and knowledge institutions.
Net zero-emission operations
We are committed to minimizing our impact on the environment by improving our operational efficiency. Our strategy to achieve zero carbon emissions includes use of renewable electricity, including by investing in and generating our own renewable electricity. In 2020, we reached our goal to use 100% renewable electricity across our operations.
Bird's eye view of solar panel installation at our Veldhoven campus.
In 2021, we will operationalize solar panels covering 4,700 m2 on our campus in Veldhoven, which are expected to provide the equivalent of three terajoules per year capacity production.
We are also reducing emissions by focusing on achieving energy savings through process optimization, cycle time reductions, and by optimizing our global real estate portfolio. In 2020, we reduced our net emissions footprint by 30.8%.
Working with our partners
We recognize that environmental impact goes beyond our operations to our partners in the value chain.
We encourage them to work with us in our effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the industry as well as our company.
There's been good progress in this area with our logistics suppliers. In 2020, the first rail freight shipment from Veldhoven to Japan was introduced.
We manage the environmental impact of our activities through a strong governance structure and our ISO14001 certified management system.
Sandvik, one of the hydropower plants on the coast of Norway.
Sustainability in practice: Generating green electricity in Norway
Through our GO2 project, we have co-financed the construction of three small hydropower plants in the rugged countryside north and south of Bergen, Norway.
The Sandvik, Valdra and Nottveit installations are run-of-river power plants, which capture energy from fast-moving rivers and have a low local ecological impact. They generate 26,000 MWh of green energy per year, which is fed into the cable between Norway and the Netherlands.
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