Having reached its goal in many markets of brewing every beer with 100% renewable electricity by 2025, Budweiser announced the launch of The Energy Collective to help provide renewable electricity to bars, music venues and stadiums around the world. This launch follows and contributes to Budweiser parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev‘s recently announced ambition to achieve net zero across its value chain by 2040.
The Energy Collective is now facilitating connection to renewable electricity in select countries including Ireland and Brazil and will be piloting the program in Colombia in 2022. Budweiser is exploring opportunities in additional countries including the UK, Chile, Uruguay and more. Apparently, the U.S. is not among the countries benefitting from this initiative.
To date, more than 2,000 local pubs in Brazil and Ireland to renewable electricity. In Brazil, renewable electricity is supplied by Lemon Energy to business owners which has already reduced carbon dioxide emissions by more than 291 tonnes annually.
The Energy Collective’s ambition for Brazil is to have 250,000 locations converted to renewable electricity by 2025, estimated to save 36,375 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) per year, which is equivalent to removing 7,991 cars from the road.