Goss Brewery Wins Two Eu Sustainable Energy Awards

Brau Union Osterreich, Heineken's operating company in Austria, has been awarded the EU Sustainable Energy Award in the business category and the Citizen's Choice Award for its zero carbon brewery in Goss, Austria - the first large-scale zero carbon brewery in the world. The brewery produces 1.4m/bottles of zero carbon Gosser beer each day and is helping to achieve Heineken's commitment to a 40% reduction in CO2 emissions from production by 2020. The traditional brewery is now powered entirely by renewable and reusable energy sources, including solar, hydropower, bio-gas and waste heat from a neighbouring saw mill. Through this transformation, it has been able to slash its CO2 emissions from around 3000/tpy to zero.