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Niagara Bottling, LLC Partners with ENGIE North America to Make Clear Statement on Sustainability

December 03, 2020 – Houston, TX. Niagara Bottling LLC today announced a retail renewable energy agreement with ENGIE Resources from ENGIE North America’s Prairie Hill and Live Oak wind projects in Texas. The contract goes through 2031. Niagara Bottling will purchase 100% of its electricity, approximately 167,000 MWh annually, from the Prairie Hill and Live Oak wind projects for its Texas bottling operations. Niagara locations across Texas produce tea, bottled water and vitamin-enhanced water beverages.

 

The renewable energy in this agreement represents environmental benefits equal to either the removal of more than 24,000 passenger motor vehicles each year from highways over the span of the contract, or the elimination of 123 million pounds of coal burned each year.

Niagara will also achieve budget certainty throughout the term of this agreement with a fixed price structure in a simple retail contract with flexible terms.

“As a family owned company, our priority is the health of our team members, our communities and our environment,” said Andrew Peykoff II, President and CEO of Niagara Bottling. “We are committed to responsible resource usage and integrating sustainability into every aspect of our business. ENGIE plays an important role to help us continuously innovate and reduce our carbon footprint.”

“Niagara Bottling is a true success story, built on values we share including integrity and efficiency,” said Sayun Sukduang, Chief Supply Officer for ENGIE North America. “We’re proud to provide a solution that meets all of Niagara’s energy, environmental and economic criteria.”

ENGIE North America is the developer, owner, and operator of the Prairie Hill and Live Oak wind projects.  Prairie Hill is a 300 MW project that is located in Limestone and McLennan counites in Texas. Live Oak (which is owned in partnership with an affiliate of John Laing Group plc) is a 200 MW project that is located near San Angelo, Texas.  Both projects contribute to ENGIE’s rapid expansion in renewables, with an ambition to build approximately 9,000 MW of new renewable energy projects from 2019-2021 globally. ENGIE is building 2 GW of new renewable energy projects in North America this year and has an additional 10,000 MW of wind and solar projects in its broader development pipeline in the U.S. and Canada.

 

 

Prairie Hill wind project
Prairie Hill wind project

 

 

About Niagara Bottling, LLC

Niagara Bottling, LLC has been family owned and operated since 1963. Headquartered in Diamond Bar, CA, Niagara operates bottling facilities throughout the U.S. and Mexico.  As a leading manufacturer in the U.S., Niagara Bottling works closely with some of the largest retailers, grocers, club and convenience stores through the country. Niagara produces a variety of beverages including bottled water, sparkling, vitamin and flavored waters, teas and sports drinks.

 

About ENGIE North America

ENGIE North America Inc. offers a range of capabilities in the United States and Canada to help customers decarbonize, decentralize and digitalize their operations. These include comprehensive services to help customers run their facilities more efficiently and optimize energy and other resource use and expense; clean power generation; energy storage; and retail energy supply that includes renewable, demand response, and on-bill financing options. Nearly 100% of the company’s power generation portfolio is low carbon or renewable. Globally, ENGIE S.A. relies on their key businesses (gas, renewable energy, services) to offer competitive solutions to customers. With 170,000 employees, customers, partners and stakeholders, we are a community of Imaginative Builders, committed every day to more harmonious progress.

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Nestlé Waters North America Signs Renewable Energy Agreement with ENGIE Resources

October 22, 2018 – Houston, TX – Nestlé Waters North America (NWNA), together with ENGIE Resources, today announced that they have signed a renewable energy agreement through which ENGIE will supply over 50 percent of the energy needed for NWNA’s manufacturing and distribution facilities in Texas. With this agreement, NWNA operations in Travis, McLennan, Dallas, and Harris counties will be supplied by renewable wind energy from the Midway Wind Farm in San Patricio County, Texas, supporting Nestlé’s global goal to transition to 100 percent renewable energy use in its operations.

 

NWNA will use clean, renewable energy to produce sustainably sourced beverage options for Texans, including the company’s Ozarka® Brand Natural Spring Water and Nestlé® Pure Life® Purified Water. The agreement will include up to 70,500 renewable energy certificates (RECs) per year from Midway Wind LLC. Based on current electrical usage, by transitioning its electrical power needs to renewable sources, the carbon footprint from the company’s Texas factories will be reduced by more than 44,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalent per year. This is the equivalent of taking 9,500 vehicles off the road for one year.

“At Nestlé Waters North America, we are committed to enhancing quality of life and contributing to a healthier future for individuals and families, communities and the planet. Transitioning our factories to clean, renewable energy is one important way we can achieve this goal,” said Alexander Gregorian, Vice President, Head of Technical and Production at Nestlé Waters North America. “We are proud to partner with ENGIE and Midway Wind LLC here in Texas, as we continue our journey toward achieving 100 percent renewable energy use in our operations.”

“We’re pleased to offer a suite of sustainability solutions that make it easy to be green,” said Graham Leith, Senior Vice President of ENGIE Resources. “In this case, NWNA took advantage of ENGIE’s EasyRE product, which allows our customers to take service directly from an existing renewable energy source. EasyRE differs from traditional PPA via competitive pricing, shorter contract terms and right-sized volumes.”

Earlier this year, Nestlé Waters North America transitioned its facility in Sacramento, California to 100 percent renewable energy, and announced, along with its parent company, a 15-year power purchase agreement that will provide approximately 80 percent of the electrical load for five Nestlé facilities in southeastern Pennsylvania. As a result of these recent milestones, by 2019, over 20 percent of the electricity Nestlé uses in the U.S. will be from renewable sources.

About Nestlé Waters
Nestlé Waters North America offers an unrivaled portfolio of bottled waters for healthy hydration, including Ozarka® Brand Natural Spring Water, Nestlé® Pure Life®, Perrier® and S. Pellegrino®. The company also owns and operates ReadyRefresh℠ by Nestlé®, a customizable water and beverage delivery service. Just Click and Quench™

Based in Stamford, Connecticut with some 8,500 associates, we are committed to reducing our environmental footprint across our operations. As a natural resource company, we sustainably manage 47 spring sources and conserve nearly 21,000 acres of natural watershed area. We are also committed to creating shared value and being a good neighbor in the 140 communities where we operate in the U.S. In Texas, Nestlé Waters North America conserves more than 7,500 acres of land and operates four bottling facilities that employ more than 700 people. For more information, visit us at www.nestle-watersna.com/en and follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram: @NestleWatersNA.

About ENGIE Resources LLC
ENGIE Resources is a subsidiary of ENGIE North America and part of the international energy group ENGIE. As the fourth-largest electricity supplier to non-residential consumers in the United States, we deliver a combination of products and services, highly rated customer service, and financial strength that provides unique and compelling value to our customers. Now offering solar and other renewable energy options, demand response, and on-bill financing, we assure our customers that they can count on us to create effective, customized plans for them. Our in-house energy experts work with customers to understand their operations, tailoring products and services specific to their business and budget. For more about ENGIE Resources, visit www.engieresources.com or call 1-866-999-8374. Follow ENGIE Resources on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

About ENGIE North America Inc.
ENGIE North America manages a range of energy businesses in the United States and Canada, including clean power generation, cogeneration, and energy storage; retail energy sales; and comprehensive services to help customers run their facilities more efficiently and optimize energy and other resource use and expense. Nearly 100 percent of the company’s power generation portfolio is low carbon or renewable. Globally, ENGIE is the largest independent power producer and energy efficiency services provider in the world, with operations in 70 countries employing 150,000 people, including 1,000 researchers in 11 R&D centers. For more information, please visit www.engie-na.com, @ENGIENorthAm, and www.engie.com.

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