Huawei's Chengdu Research Center: Fully Powered by Renewable Energy
Huawei's Chengdu Research Center is located in Sichuan Province, which is rich in water resources. The center covers an area of 0.67 square kilometers and accommodates more than 10,000 employees. It has been taking active steps to create a green campus and a green operation and maintenance system. They believe that using renewable energy and building a green campus can help Huawei design products that are green from the very moment of conception and provide reliable, stable, and eco-friendly ICT products for customers worldwide. Together, they can contribute to a greener planet.
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200 million+ kWh
of hydropower is supplied to Chengdu Research Center, reducing its annual carbon footprint by about 177,000 tons of CO2 emissions
Since 2019, the Chengdu Research Center has begun transitioning to hydropower, and now the campus is fully powered with renewable energy. Every year, over 200 million kWh of hydropower is supplied to the center. By switching to hydropower, the Chengdu Research Center has reduced its annual carbon footprint by about 177,000 tons1 of CO2 emissions.
Huawei's Chengdu Research Center in Sichuan
Huawei's GHG emissions in 2020
| GHG | Scope 1 | Scope 2 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emissions (t-CO2) | 41,736 | 2,243,722 | 2,285,458 |
| % of total emissions | 1.83% | 98.17% | 100% |
Scope 1 includes stationary combustion emissions, mobile combustion emissions, and fugitive emissions. Scope 2 includes indirect emissions from energy.
In 2016, Huawei set a carbon emission target (for Scope 1 and Scope 2) for 2020: Reducing carbon emissions per million RMB of sales revenue by 30% compared to the base year (2012). In 2020, our carbon emissions per million RMB of sales revenue were 2.56 tons. This represented a 33.2% decrease compared to the base year (2012), meaning that we beat our 2020 target.
Total GHG emissions3 (2012–2020)
Intensity of GHG emissions (2012–2020)
Huawei's water usage in China (2016 to 2020)
In 2020, Huawei's water usage in China was 14 million tons, up about 8% year-on-year. This increase was largely attributable to growth in our business, larger construction sites, and maintenance of larger landscaped areas. Most of the water we consumed in our operations was used to water our grounds, in our canteens, and for air-conditioning.
In 2020, we completed multiple energy conservation projects on our campuses in China, including upgrading the packing in our cooling towers and adding variable speed pumps to the air conditioning units in our cooling stations, and installing LED lighting systems. These projects helped us save more than 11 million kWh of electricity, equivalent to reducing CO2 emissions by 9,000 tons1. In 2020, about 1.55 billion kWh of the electricity we purchased came from clean energy sources, which was equivalent to reducing CO2 emissions by more than 620,000 tons2.
Electricity purchased by Huawei that came from clean energy sources between 2017 and 2020
CTI certification on Huawei's GHG emission reduction
- By China's regional grid baseline emission factors.
- See the CTI Certification on how the amount is calculated.
- Figures for 2019–2020 are for Huawei's global operations, while 2012–2018 are for our operations in the China Region.
