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Exxaro's green timeline

2006
  • Exxaro adopts Energy Efficiency Accord
2008
  • Energy efficiency task team established with voluntary champions at each business unit
  • Unisa chair in business and climate change sponsored for three years
  • Carbon emissions reported for first time: 19 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e)
2009
  • Comprehensive response developed to energy, carbon and climate change management
2010
  • Major water management programme introduced
  • Renewable energy projects developed
2011
  • Launched biodiversity, waste and air programme
  • Cennergi formed as standalone energy company with international energy partner
  • R107 million spent on developing cleaner energy initiatives: cogeneration, carbon credit trading, renewable energy, biodiesel, coal-fed methane development and coal base-load projects
2012
  • Carbon footprint significantly reduced
  • Cennergi preferred bidder on two wind energy projects totalling 234MW
2013
  • Cennergi construction begins on Amakhala Emoyeni and Tsitsikamma wind farms
2014
  • Cennergi construction of two wind farms underway
  • Exxaro awarded Global Green Award for world-class sustainable environmental practices
2016
  • All operations granted integrated water use licences
2017
  • Submitted first pollution-prevention plans
  • First submission to national atmosphere emissions inventories systems
  • Submitted 2017 greenhouse gas and carbon budget reports
2018
  • Clean energy subsidiary pays Exxaro dividends
2019
  • Implemented new energy efficiency and carbon footprint reduction projects at Grootegeluk
  • Complying to the GHG pollution prevention plan
  • Quantification of carbon tax liability