SHEIN warehouse rooftop photovoltaic continues to expand, reducing carbon emissions by more than 2,000 tons a year

As photovoltaic technology gradually matures and becomes more economical, China has become a leading photovoltaic manufacturing and installed capacity application country. The rapid growth of installed capacity applications is inseparable from the active application of photovoltaic technology by enterprises. As the world's leading online retailer of fashion and lifestyle, SHEIN is not only a leader in fashion brands and cross-border e-commerce, but also a "demonstration student" in the application of photovoltaic technology. By promoting rooftop photovoltaics and energy efficiency improvement projects in warehouses and other facilities, and even driving upstream and downstream cooperative enterprises to use photovoltaic equipment, SHEIN is implementing its own 2030 carbon reduction goals while also providing a reference for traditional industries such as fashion clothing to develop ESG and green new quality productivity.

The continuous expansion of rooftop photovoltaic installations has reduced carbon emissions by more than 2,000 tons

As one of SHEIN's important efforts to achieve its carbon reduction goals, in early 2023, SHEIN's warehouse in Guangzhou started installing rooftop photovoltaics. By laying a photovoltaic power generation system on the roof of the warehouse, solar energy is converted into electricity, ultimately providing the clean energy needed for production and operations. Photovoltaic energy has high quality, can avoid power losses caused by long-distance transmission lines, and can achieve zero pollution emissions. In just one year, SHEIN's warehouses in Guangzhou, Foshan, Jiangmen and other places have gradually introduced this green new energy and achieved grid-connected power generation. By the end of 2023, the installed capacity of SHEIN warehouse rooftop photovoltaics has reached 43.62MW (megawatts), and the use of photovoltaic green electricity in 2023 is equivalent to a reduction of 2,255 tons of carbon dioxide emissions.

Photovoltaic power generation can not only meet the various power needs of warehouse production equipment, lighting systems, large fans, etc., but some warehouses used by SHEIN are also equipped with energy storage systems to store unused electricity during the day in time to meet the energy needs of the warehouse at night and during power outages, providing a green and lasting power supply for the efficient operation of the warehouse. In addition, the advantages of photovoltaic electricity prices and lower indoor temperatures have also contributed to the rapid promotion of rooftop photovoltaic projects. At present, SHEIN's warehouses in more cities are also continuing to install or pre- install rooftop photovoltaics. The Xiyin Bay Area Western Smart Industrial Park project, with a total investment of 3.5 billion yuan, plans to have an installed capacity of more than 24MW (megawatts), and is expected to reduce carbon emissions by more than 10,000 tons per year.

Driven by the goal of "carbon peak and carbon neutrality", the State Council and other departments have successively issued top-level policies such as "Several Opinions of the State Council on Promoting the Healthy Development of the Photovoltaic Industry". China's photovoltaic industry has developed rapidly, and photovoltaic cell manufacturing has reached the world's advanced level. As an important development direction of global energy technology and industry, China's photovoltaic industry has become a strategic emerging industry with international competitive advantages, and is known as one of the "new three" foreign trade exports in the new era.

SHEIN continues to promote the use of photovoltaic new energy in areas such as warehouses, which is also an important manifestation of further using advanced environmental protection technologies and leading the green fashion trend. At the same time, SHEIN continues to implement energy efficiency improvement projects, inviting international industry experts to jointly sort out the greenhouse gas emission sources and major energy-consuming equipment in the operating sites to identify emission reduction opportunities, and promote a series of energy efficiency improvement measures in warehouses, parks and offices. These measures include the construction of energy management systems, scheduled shutdown of air compressors, adjustment of lighting quantity and duration, and reduction of air conditioning operation time. It is estimated that the annual electricity bill will save more than hundreds of thousands of yuan, greatly reducing energy consumption.

Continue to practice green emission reduction to release green new quality productivity

Whether it is launching rooftop photovoltaics in warehouses and other facilities or implementing energy efficiency improvement projects, they are important measures for SHEIN to implement its 2030 carbon reduction goals. SHEIN is working hard to reduce total greenhouse gas emissions by more than 25% by 2030.

The integration of sustainable development into all aspects of the supply chain and operations is an important reason why SHEIN leads the green fashion and rises rapidly in the global fashion market. SHEIN leads the industry in innovative flexible supply chain model, changing the traditional mass production model of "production determines sales" to "production determines sales", producing and supplying according to market and user needs. SHEIN's digital flexible supply chain model has greatly solved the industry's inventory and waste problems, and led the sustainable development trend of the fashion and apparel industry.

At the same time, SHEIN has integrated the ESG development concept into the entire process of business operations, including the application of sustainable raw materials and the use of excess fabrics in the industry for reproduction, the active application of environmentally friendly technologies such as digital thermal transfer and digital cold transfer in the manufacturing process, the use of environmentally friendly packaging bags and express bags in the packaging process, and the promotion of circular economy development through the SHEIN Exchange second-hand trading platform. By integrating the ESG concept into every aspect of daily operations, SHEIN's sustainable development concept is organically integrated with the business itself.

In addition, SHEIN is also actively expanding the use of green energy such as photovoltaics and new energy trucks to reduce carbon emissions. Driven by SHEIN, more and more upstream and downstream partners of SHEIN are also continuously increasing the promotion and use of new energy, truly playing the role of ESG "demonstrators" and continuously adding "green content" to industrial development.

An important aspect that distinguishes new quality productivity from traditional productivity is that it has higher technical content, value content, green content, brand content, etc. Green development is the background of high-quality development, and new quality productivity itself is green productivity. Taking carbon emission reduction as the driving force and increasing the proportion of clean energy can not only accelerate the green and low-carbon transformation of the industry, but also provide a strong "green support" for enhancing the reputation of corporate brands and competitiveness in the international market.

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