The Intensive Energy Consumption Management System (SGCIE)
This system foresees that Energy Intensive Consuming Companies (EICs), with energy consumption equal to or higher than 500 toe/year, carry out periodic energy audits and sign agreements to rationalize energy consumption with the objective of increasing the energy efficiency of the installations and reduce their environmental impacts.
Although Neutroplast does not meet the criteria of a CIE company, because its annual energy consumption is less than 500tep, it has chosen to voluntarily perform an energy audit in order to increase its energy efficiency.
Neutroplast's solar project
The execution of this audit allowed the identification of possible and desirable situations for increasing the energy efficiency of the facility, namely, a photovoltaic plant for self-consumption, financed by Helexia through an Energy Performance Contract - see project.
This photovoltaic solar power plant with 630 panels, covered 12% of Neutroplast's energy needs, allowing a more sustainable production, by reducing its ecological footprint by 110 tons of CO2 annually, equivalent to planting 2800 trees per year.