Getting to Zero Carbon at Our Seletar Campus

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Rolls-Royce is on the road to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions across all our operations and facilities within this decade. This will contribute to our Race to Zero goal of reaching net zero carbon emissions across all our products, services and operations by 2050.

Decarbonising our operations and facilities

In South East Asia, we are getting on board with these initiatives—particularly in Singapore. By introducing and evolving the Seletar Campus with carbon-free initiatives, it will become a green blueprint for our other offices and facilities in the region. Our aim is to further improve energy efficiency in our operations and facilities over the coming years, followed by a complete elimination of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

In our journey towards greater sustainability, we have made significant progress. Over the past six years, we have cut down our energy usage intensity in our facilities by 23 percent. At the same time, our greenhouse gas emission levels have dropped by 41 percent.

Our Seletar Campus contributed to these achievements with several green initiatives. The facilities are cooled by some of the most energy efficient chillers available in the market and over 95 percent of our lighting systems are powered by LED. We are also taking advantage of Singapore’s climate, which enjoys more than 2,000 hours of sunshine a year. Across our roofs and car parks, we have installed over 11,700 solar panels to power our facilities with energy from the sun. They supply 10 percent of our power needs, and we are looking to increase this gradually over the next few years.

Implementing digitalisation in our sustainability strategy

To reach our 2030 goals, we will enhance our efforts with the power of digitalisation, smarter building technology, and energy-efficient equipment.

“We are taking a digital and data-driven approach to our sustainable practices,” Nigel Goh, Regional Energy Manager, Asia Pacific at Rolls-Royce, said. “Data can unlock more insights to help us run our building operations more efficiently. Our next port of call is to consolidate data points on our facilities, such as plant performance, electricity consumption and building services usage, so that we can make better decisions to optimise our operations.”

This also involves applying analytics for predictive maintenance to our current equipment. Combining IoT with digital software, sensors will help monitor the status, such as power input and vibration, of highly energy efficient equipment. The data gathered will be fed into fault detection and diagnostics tools to help us anticipate and fix issues. As more efficient equipment run for a longer period, it will help generate more energy savings and reduce our carbon footprint further.

People as a force for change

People will also be a crucial factor in our success moving forward. Through education, encouragement and setting the right examples, colleagues influence each other to adopt behaviours that lead to more sustainable outcomes. At work, we are persuading employees to reduce single use plastics, bring their own food packaging, and be mindful of things like turning off the lights after using a room.

Leading the way to a sustainable future

“At Rolls-Royce, we are bringing people, technology and processes together to make sure that we achieve the sustainable goals we have set for ourselves,” said Bicky Bhangu, President, South East Asia, Pacific & South Korea at Rolls-Royce. “By applying the smart technologies and thinking we use for our customers to our own green practices, we can accelerate our transition to become a more energy-efficient company”

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