{"id":13249,"date":"2021-12-20T11:01:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T03:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/articles\/walking-on-sunshine-how-aprils-solar-panels-help-reduce-emissions\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T03:45:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T03:45:38","slug":"walking-on-sunshine-how-april-s-solar-panels-help-reduce-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/articles\/walking-on-sunshine-how-april-s-solar-panels-help-reduce-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking On Sunshine: How APRIL\u2019s Solar Panels Help Reduce Emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"page-inner-wrapper\">\n<p>Indonesia is blessed with abundant sunshine, making it the perfect place for our renewable plantations \u2013 and for solar power.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve installed 1MW of solar panels at <a href=\"\/en\/about-us\/our-operations\">our operations<\/a> in Pangkalan Kerinci as part of a project to install 20MW by 2025. When completed it will be one of the largest solar installations by a private company in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/solar-panel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also unique because it\u2019s built over a closed landfill, making use of land that otherwise has to remain untouched.<\/p>\n<p>APRIL Group already uses leftover organic material from the production process to provide renewable energy for our operations, providing just over 80 per cent of electricity needs in our mill.<\/p>\n<p>We want to increase that to 90 per cent by 2030, while also reducing the carbon emissions from our production by 25 per cent as part of our APRIL2030 sustainability commitment.<\/p>\n<p>The solar panels will also help us achieve our APRIL2030 commitment to source 50% of fibre operation energy needs from renewables and cleaner energy sources. It\u2019s all part of our plan to further phase out the use of fossil fuels as we continue to build a <a href=\"https:\/\/april2030.aprilasia.com\/greencomplex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">green complex<\/a> at our operations in Kerinci.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/april2030.aprilasia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">APRIL2030 is our vision<\/a> for meeting the challenges of the next decade, and is comprised of four commitments with 18 ambitious targets \u2013 Climate Positive, Thriving Landscape, Inclusive Progress and Sustainable Growth.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indonesia is blessed with abundant sunshine, making it the perfect place for our renewable plantations \u2013 and for solar power. We\u2019ve installed 1MW of solar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-life-at-april"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13500,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13249\/revisions\/13500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}