GHG Emissions, Industrial, Sourcing Renewables  -  June 27, 2024

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Achieves 50% Use of RE

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced it lowered emissions primarily through a transition to clean energy and surpassed its 2025 target of sourcing 50% renewable electricity for the past two consecutive years.

The technology company seeks to become a net-zero company by 2040 across its entire value chain. This goal and other targets were approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi),

HPE is among the first global IT companies with a net-zero target of 2040 or earlier approved by the Net-Zero Standard of the SBTi.

In 2023, HPE’s overall emissions increased by 8% year-over-year, primarily due to business growth and changes in the product mix. HPE’s roadmap to achieve Scope 3 reductions requires longer-term investments and innovations in order to accelerate the decarbonization of the electricity on which HPE, its suppliers and its customers rely.

To better integrate accountability for contributing to the achievement of this goal, HPE has implemented a method of tying variable compensation for HPE’s executive committee with climate metrics and bespoke organizational goals aimed at reducing HPE’s carbon intensity within each member’s individual span of control.

Details were released in its annual Living Progress Report for fiscal year 2023.

“The drive toward a thriving and sustainable society—where access to basic needs like food and healthcare are achieved within earth's ecological boundaries and while maintaining security and privacy protections—is being propelled forward by technology,” said Antonio Neri, HPE President and CEO, in a statement. “At HPE, we are working hard to innovate in an ethical and sustainable manner so we can truly accelerate what’s next.”

HPE is expanding its portfolio of efficient and IT offerings that help customers reduce the environmental impacts of their growing IT needs across the entire IT lifecycle. 

In 2023, HPE expanded its portfolio of IT sustainability services to address sustainability challenges comprehensively from data centers to workloads to individual devices. For example, HPE Right Mix Advisor and the HPE Edge-to-Cloud Adoption Framework deliver an approach that utilizes an array of tools and processes to address environmental and sustainability goals and efficiently plan for modernization.

The company offers data and visibility into the environmental impact of IT estates, enabling customers to consider environmental factors when purchasing, managing and disposing of IT infrastructure. For example, the HPE Sustainability Insights Center, launched in 2023, delivers energy and carbon emissions reporting via a unified console in the HPE GreenLake Platform, empowering customers to make changes, lower costs and achieve their sustainable IT objectives.

The latest generation of HPE ProLiant Gen 11 servers allows customers to consolidate and expand compute capabilities within the same or smaller footprint, reducing power, cooling, floor space, and licensing costs. HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers boast a 60% smaller data center footprint and 81% lower power and cooling costs compared to previous generations. 

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