SC Johnson Energy Solutions

Energy Supply Solutions:

• SC Johnson broke ground for its Landfill Gas Green Energies initiative in April 2003, installing a turbine that produces electricity and steam through cogeneration for its largest manufacturing plant, Waxdale, in southeastern Wisconsin.
  
  

• SC Johnson has refined technology to enable cleaner mixtures of landfill gas and natural gas to fuel boilers. This provides over a third of its Waxdale plant’s steam energy needs. The company has also installed a 3.2 MW turbine and generator to burn waste methane gas that would otherwise be flared into the atmosphere. SC Johnson burns the methane gas instead of fossil fuels, such as natural gas or coal, to generate electricity and steam for the site’s operations, providing about 50 percent of the facility’s electricity and 20 percent of its process steam. Through this system, the company expects to reduce Waxdale’s emissions of CO₂ and other GHGs by 47 percent and cut fossil fuel energy use nearly in half by 2005.
         

Energy Demand Solutions:

• SC Johnson reduced volume and temperatures of aerosol water baths, which helped to reduce water bath energy use by 50 percent with no decrease in production quality at its Waxdale aerosol production facility.

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