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Fujifilm has announced that it will offset 100 percent of its group companies\u2019 electricity usage in the United States and Canada using renewable energy certificates (RECs) from a new Texas-based solar energy project. <\/p>\n
This builds upon an announcement<\/a> Fujifilm made back in November 2023, when the company said it had signed a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) for 300,000 MWh of annual sustainable solar energy from the Blevins Solar Project. <\/p>\n Under this agreement, Fujifilm supports the development of 300,000 MWh of solar power at the Blevins Solar & Storage Project in Blevins, Texas. This project is operated by Geronimo Power, a Minnesota-based company. <\/p>\n \u201cAs this project comes online, it aligns with Fujifilm\u2019s transition strategy, combining support for the development of new renewable electricity capacity with broader efforts to achieve measurable reductions in the environmental impacts of our operations over time,\u201d says Chisato Yoshizawa, director, corporate vice president, and general manager of Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Division, Fujifilm Holdings Corporation.<\/p>\n Fujifilm\u2019s VPPA corresponds to approximately 90,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions per year, which is about 10 percent of Fujifilm\u2019s Group\u2019s global annual CO2 emissions based on the company\u2019s data ending the 2025 fiscal year. <\/p>\n Geronimo Power completed its 2,300-acre solar park in late 2025, and the site became fully operational last month. Under the VPPA, Fujifilm bought about 46 percent of the project\u2019s nameplate capacity from Geronimo Power. <\/p>\n \u201cThe Blevins project reflects Geronimo\u2019s commitment to building energy infrastructure that delivers real value to communities,\u201d adds Gemma Smith, Vice President of Operations at Geronimo. \u201cWorking alongside partners such as Fujifilm and Bristol Myers Squibb, we\u2019re delivering dependable power and meaningful economic investment while advancing our shared commitment to community-focused, responsibly built clean energy.\u201d <\/p>\n Like many companies, Fujifilm is working toward specific targets and environmental initiatives<\/a> that address climate change, including net-zero GHG emissions by fiscal year 2040 and reducing GHG emissions across the company\u2019s entire product life cycle by 50 percent by fiscal year 2030. <\/p>\n \u201cAt Fujifilm, we have a proud history that spans nearly a century \u2014 leveraging our excellence in imaging to become a global leader across healthcare, life sciences, and advanced materials. Yet our purpose has always remained the same \u2014 to create and support technologies that improve lives and bring the world more smiles,\u201d said Girish Menon, senior director, Environmental Health and Safety, Fujifilm Holdings America Corporation. \u201cThis power purchase agreement turns our purpose into action by supporting new, renewable electricity that advances our energy strategy and helps sustain Fujifilm\u2019s broader decarbonization efforts across North America.\u201d <\/p>\n Renewable energy certificates are a common way for companies to achieve higher rates of renewable energy use, particularly when they cannot generate renewable energy on-site. Essentially, a company uses a proportion of grid energy and balances that usage by purchasing certificates for a desired level of energy from renewable energy companies, like Geronimo Power in this case. <\/p>\n \u201cBecause the physical electricity we receive through the utility grid says nothing of its origin or how it was generated, RECs play an important role in accounting, tracking, and assigning ownership to renewable electricity generation and use. On a shared grid \u2014 whether the electricity comes from on-site or off-site resources \u2014 RECs are the instrument that electricity consumers must use to substantiate renewable electricity use claims,\u201d the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) explains<\/a>. <\/p>\n Image credits: Fujifilm <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fujifilm has announced that it will offset 100 percent of its group companies\u2019 electricity usage in the United…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,2572,75,103692,292527,128,303309],"class_list":{"0":"post-625997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-energy","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-fujifilm","13":"tag-renewableenergy","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-solarpower"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}