MUSCATINE, Iowa — The Kraft Heinz Company is receiving a large grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help the company support clean energy projects, with the company's Muscatine location receiving a portion of the grant.
According to a press release sent on Monday, March 25, the company was chosen to receive up to $170 million to assist in its “The Delicious Decarbonization Through Integrated Electrification and Energy Storage” project. The project's goal is to reduce the emissions of 10 of the company's plants by more than 99% compared to 2022 levels. To do this, the company will install various technologies in its production plants, including heat pumps, electric heaters, electric boilers, anaerobic digestors, biogas boilers, solar thermal, solar photovoltaic and thermal energy storage.
10 plants will receive a portion of the grant funding, including the company's Muscatine plant, which will receive an estimated $14 million. The other Kraft Heinz locations that will receive a portion of the funding are:
- Champaign, Illinois
- Mason City, Iowa
- Columbia, Missouri
- Fremont, Ohio
- Holland, Michigan
- Kendallville, Indiana
- New Ulm, Minnesota
- Winchester, Virginia
- Lowville, New York
“At Kraft Heinz, we’re on a journey to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050,” Marcos Eloi Lima with Kraft Heinz said. “This investment will give us critical resources to make necessary improvements in our plants to help increase their energy efficiency and reduce emissions. This investment recognizes our continued efforts to reduce our environmental footprint, and we’re eager to get started.”
According to Kraft Heinz, the improvements are expected to be finished by 2030, and the project will create approximately 500 jobs across the 10 plants receiving the grant funding.
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