Worldwide benchmarking of energy and water efficiency in the brewing sector 2012
Environmental awareness is important in the brewing sector, both for ensuring the availability of high quality resources and to meet consumers’ expectations on environmental aspects. Minimizing energy and water consumption and related CO2-emissions is one of the routes to enhance sustainability in the brewing sector. To determine what energy and water efficiencies breweries worldwide achieve, the fourth energy benchmark 2012 and second water benchmark 2012 have been performed; these are based on data from 2011. From the results the new best practice on energy and water efficiency has been established.