ST's Bouskoura plant in Morocco to use 50% renewable energy by 2022

STMicroelectronics' Bouskoura plant in Morocco to use 50% renewable energy by 2022

A plan to advance STMicroelectronics’ renewable energy procurement and commitment to carbon neutrality by 2027

China, August 4, 2021 - STMicroelectronics (ST), a global semiconductor leader serving multiple electronics applications, announced that as part of its plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2027, the proportion of renewable energy procurement at the Bouskoura plant will reach 50% by 2022, compared to 1% in 2020.

STMicroelectronics has been rooted in Bouskoura, Morocco for more than 20 years, with a back-end plant employing 2,800 people. In the past few years, the plant has developed several energy-saving and emission-reduction plans to reduce indirect greenhouse gas emissions (Scope 2) and increase the use of renewable energy:

• Purchase of wind power: The 12 wind turbines installed by InnoVent in northern Morocco feed electricity into the Moroccan national grid, which ST then purchases. InnoVent, a company that develops and operates wind and solar farms in France and Africa, built a 10-hectare wind farm in the Oualidia-El Jadida region in northwestern Morocco, near the Atlantic Ocean. It began generating electricity in March 2021 and will reach a maximum power generation of 36 megawatts by the end of the year. It is expected that annual green energy generation will reach more than 80 gigawatt-hours. The Bouskoura plant can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 60,000 tons per year, which is equivalent to the amount of carbon captured by planting 1.1 million trees.

• Solar power generation. In December 2019, STMicroelectronics’ Bouskoura plant built a solar parking lot (250 parking spaces), laying 2,400 solar panels with a peak output power of 672 kilowatts and an installation area of ​​about 4,000 square meters. The annual solar power generation exceeds 1 gigawatt-hour, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by nearly 740 tons per year. Solar power generation can meet some of the Bouskoura plant’s own electricity needs and supplement the transmission capacity of the wind farm.

• Replacement of conventional lighting throughout the plant with LED lighting. The project, which began in September 2020, will reduce the plant’s annual electricity consumption by 1.3 GWh.

Fabrice Gomez, General Manager of STMicroelectronics Bouskoura, said: “We are purchasing electricity from the Oualidia wind farm to supplement the generation capacity of the solar parking lot installed a year ago. We are proud to call on renewable energy and local energy companies to help the company achieve its carbon neutrality goals, while also supporting the Moroccan government’s commitment to energy transition.”

Rajita D'Souza, President of Human Resources and CSR at STMicroelectronics, added: "ST is committed to 100% renewable energy by 2027, through internal solar power generation and purchases of green certified renewable energy. The use of wind power at our Bouskoura site in Morocco is a big step forward for the company, a trend we will gradually intensify and implement across our multiple sites."

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