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Leadership • We Remain the Only Automaker to Sign the Ceres Leadership We remain the only automaker to sign the Ceres Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy Climate Declaration stating that tackling climate change is an economic opportunity. We committed to generate or source all electrical power for 350 operations in 59 countries with 100% renewable energy by 2050. We achieved perfect scores on climate change data disclosure in 2013, 2014 and 2015. We earned a perfect score on performance in 2014 and were featured in the CDP S&P 500 Climate Change Report and The CDP Climate Performance Leadership Index 2014. We received a 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2013 EPA ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence award, the organization’s highest level of recognition for corporate energy management. EPA recognized us for raising climate change awareness. We were one of the first 13 companies to sign the White House American Business Act on Climate Pledge demonstrating ongoing commitment to climate action and support for a strong Paris climate negotiations outcome. The Solar Energy Industries Association named us a “Solar Champion” for significant impact on establishing a strong U.S. solar industry. Reducing Energy Use We reduced energy use at our global facilities by 28% on a per-vehicle-produced basis between 2005 and 2010. These savings reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 3.34M metric tons during that timeframe. We committed to reduce energy intensity from facilities by 20% by 2020 over a 2010 baseline. From 2010 to 2015, we reduced it 14%, despite severe winter climates. GM avoided $89M in energy costs through these conservation initiatives. We have 73 facilities meeting a voluntary energy-reduction challenge set by the U.S. EPA – more than any company worldwide. These facilities reduced energy by 25% on average, resulting in $237M in energy savings. We have received ENERGY STAR® certification at 13 of our facilities, such as our Lansing parts distribution center and Arizona IT Innovation Center. These buildings perform in the top 25th percentile of similar facilities nationwide. We reduced 20,000 metric tons of CO2 through energy efficiency at three buildings recognized in EPA’s ENERGY STAR® National Building Competition: Battle of the Buildings. We participate in U.S. Department of Energy’s Better Buildings, Better Plants program to achieve 25% or greater combined energy use reduction at 31 plants by 2018. Our facilities around the world employ a variety of efficiency tactics: o Liuzhou, China used no heating system in winter, other than in the paint shop. Natural ventilation and harvested daylight make this one of the lowest energy per-unit plants in the world. o Bupyeong and Gunsan, Korea conducted paint shop energy conservation projects to save $820,000 annually. o Quito, Ecuador used solar panels to power LED lamps in outlying areas. o St. Catherine, Ontario replaced chillers with a water-cooling system using canal water from the adjacent St. Lawrence Seaway. o Gliwice, Poland made three heat recovery investments that, combined, save 9,140 MWh in annual energy use. o We completed our largest LED conversion in North America at our Lordstown, Ohio assembly and stamping complex reducing energy consumption 84% and CO2 by 8,500 metric tons. Reducing Emissions By saving energy and increasing use of renewable energy sources, our global facilities achieved a 28% reduction in CO2 emissions on a per-vehicle- produced basis between 2005 and 2010. We committed to reduce carbon intensity from our facilities by 20% by 2020 over a 2010 baseline. From 2010 to 2015, we reduced it 15%. Since 1990, we decreased our manufacturing emissions by 60%. We joined EPA SmartWay Partnership to drive benchmarking of fuel use and emissions reduction by our freight shippers and carriers. Chevrolet met its voluntary commitment to reduce 8M metric tons of CO2 emissions from entering the atmosphere through its five-year community-based carbon reduction initiative. The brand retired the carbon credits to benefit the climate instead of using them to offset emissions of its vehicles or operations. o Investment projects promoted energy savings, renewable energy, responsible use of natural resources and conservation. o Chevrolet was the largest corporate buyer of voluntary carbon-reduction credits in the U.S. by volume for 2011, 2012, and 2013, as tracked by Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace. o We created a methodology enabling U.S. college campuses to earn money for their clean energy upgrades, a collaboration that won a Climate Leadership Award for Innovative Partnerships from the U.S. EPA Center for Corporate Climate Leadership. Updated September 2016 Renewable Energy In North America, 9% of our energy consumption comes from renewables. We use 106 MW of solar, landfill gas, hydro, and waste to energy at our facilities today, moving us closer to our 125MW renewable energy goal by 2020. Since our first renewable energy project in 1993, we’ve saved more than $80M. We now save about $5M annually. We are a founding member of the Rocky Mountain Institute’s Business Renewables Center and signatory to the WWF and WRI’s Corporate Renewable Energy Buyers' Principles designed to help utilities and renewable energy providers understand how they can make renewable energy investments easier and meet rising demand. o These NGOs brought together their expertise in transforming energy markets to create the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance, which works to identify barriers to buying clean energy and develop solutions to meet growing demand. o GM is one of 60 multinational companies in REBA representing demand for renewable power. We made SEIA’s list of top corporate solar users in 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012, when the organization first published its rankings. We have more solar installations in the U.S. than any other automaker and have the second-highest percentage of solar usage among all commercial users. Our global solar footprint is equivalent to the size of 130 American football fields. We house 48MW of solar power at 22 facilities around the world. o Additional rooftop solar installations in Europe include nearly 13 MW at Russelsheim and Kaiserslautern, Germany. o Our fourth-largest array is an 11MW rooftop solar array on our Changwon Assembly plant in South Korea. o Our 1.8MW array in Toledo is the largest rooftop installation in Ohio, generating nearly 3% of the facility’s overall electrical consumption. GM also completed a 2.2MW groundmount array at Lordstown Assembly in 2015. o Our Baltimore plant houses one of the largest solar rooftop arrays in Maryland at 1.81 MW, generating 6% of the facility’s electrical consumption. o Our 1MW solar array on our distribution center in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. was the first public solar project in the U.S. over 1MW when it began operating in the fall of 2006. It provides about half of the facility’s electricity. o Michigan’s largest ground-mount solar array is at our Detroit Hamtramck Assembly plant, generating 516kW. o Others: Zaragoza Assembly in Spain (11.87MW); Fontana Distribution Center in California (910 Kw); Joinville Engine in Brazil and Orion Assembly in Michigan (350 Kw each); and Flint Engine and Flint Swartz Creek processing center in Michigan (150Kw each). o We use solar to power 20% of our 400-plus EV charging EV charging stations and have nine facilities with solar EV charging. We are one of the largest industrial users of landfill gas in the United States. Three of our U.S. manufacturing facilities use it as a source of energy. These installations generated a savings of $4M in 2015. Landfill gas use is: o 43% of the energy consumed at the Fort Wayne assembly plant o 16% at the Toledo transmission plant o 66% at the Orion assembly plant We increased landfill gas by 14MW at our Fort Wayne and Orion assembly plants in 2014, avoiding an additional 23,000 metric tons of CO2 per year. Solid municipal waste from Metro Detroit is turned into process steam to heat and cool portions of our Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant – GM’s top facility for renewable energy use at 58%. We procured 34MW of wind to help power four of our Mexico facilities’ electricity needs and 30MW for our Arlington Assembly plant in Texas. Once live in 2016, we’ll achieve our corporate renewable energy commitment four years early. Our .98MW micro-hydro system at our St. Catherine’s plant in Canada eliminates chillers and natural gas-driven equipment. It harnesses the cooling energy of canal water to help reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions. A 74kW solar array and two 2kW wind turbines feed our Milford Data Center office’s circuit breaker panel, where five Chevrolet Volt batteries work in parallel to supply power to the building, delivering net-zero energy use annually. This secondary use application extends its life, while delivering waste reduction and economic benefits on an industrial scale. o The batteries can provide back-up power to the building for four hours during an outage and stores energy when it’s unneeded. Green Building We have nine LEED certified buildings: Joinville Engine in Brazil (Gold), GM China Advanced Technical Center (Silver), GM China Headquarters (Gold), Lansing Delta Township (Gold), our Enterprise Data Center (Gold), Korea Design Center (Gold), Baltimore Operations e-Motor Building (Silver), Milford Proving Ground's administration building, and Milford IT Data Center (Gold). o When it opened, the Lansing Delta Township building was the largest industrial project to be certified LEED. o A flywheel for battery-free backup power and in-row cooling reduces electricity at our Warren and Milford data centers. o Joinville Engine is the first automotive plant in South America to become LEED Gold certified. It generates electricity from sunlight, heats water using solar power, and reuses water through reverse osmosis.
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