Trinseo completed a solar panel installation of 1,800 solar panel modules at its latex binders manufacturing facility in Hamina, Finland. Working with Finnish electricity supplier Helen Oy, the new solar panels are expected to offset approximately 20% of the site’s power consumption. Trinseo says that the initiative supports the company’s climate change goal to increase its share of electricity from non-fossil sources from 5% to 30% by 2030.
The solar installation is a result of site-level energy assessments that are being conducted at each of the company’s global facilities. This is Trinseo’s third renewable energy supply installation. Other installations include solar panels at the Terneuzen, the Netherlands site, and a windmill at the Tessenderlo, Belgium facility. The company anticipates more physical renewable energy projects to follow at other European facilities in the coming years.
“The solar installation at the Hamina facility will help the site reduce emissions in the production of latex binders,” said Ake Zondervan, Global Energy Procurement Manager. “As we explore new ways to switch from compensating our emissions to eliminating them, projects like this will be essential.”