Key CSR indicators

 

 

 

 

 

Our Ecological Footprint

Gamesa exhaustively monitors any environmental aspects connected with its activities and, well aware that its operations are growing, the Company plans to use a greater amount of resources in an effort to reduce the relative impacts caused by the production unit, regardless of the fact that the impacts it produces are offset by the products it places on the market and the emission reductions they bring about.

 

Water Comsuption

Gamesa's water consumption fell by almost 25% in 2009 compared to the preceding year and reached a final figure of 91,255 m³.

With respect to use, 53.1% of the water consumed was for domestic-type use, 30.1% was for cooling or washing (casting cooling towers, blade cooling, Main Frame Testing unit, water laminate filtering systems in painting booths and test banks) and 16.8% was dedicated to irrigation. Normal water supplies come from local authority sources. However, there are borehole wells at some centers to withdraw groundwater.

Energy Comsuption

Efficient energy consumption has become one of the pillars upon which Gamesa bases the fight against climate change. When performing its operations, the Corporation consumes energy directly, which is used in its production operations and value chain in packaging, cooling systems, component curing systems and metal casting, among other activities. Indirect energy consumption, which is construed as the energy used to produce and distribute the energy products acquired by Gamesa, is also recorded.

Energy consumption eco-efficiency levels reveal that 167 gigajoules per employee per year are needed. This is the best figure recorded over the last three years and is twenty-one points below the figure for 2008.

Electricity Comsumption

The indirect energy consumption linked to the energy costs needed to generate the electricity consumed at our facilities totaled 71,401 MWh in 2009. The eco-efficiency rate for energy consumption per employee fell to 11.2 MWh/employee in 2009, 1.3 points below the figure for 2008. This clearly reveals the positive effects brought about by energy efficiency measures on this indicator.

 

Waste

 

The total volume of waste produced by Gamesa in 2009 amounted to 16,069 tons, a reduction of approximately 26% on 2008. This figure is even lower than the figure recorded in 2007. As regards waste generation, the Wind Turbine Design, Manufacturing and Operations Unit accounted for 98% of the total volume managed in 2009 (15,789 tons), as the Wind Farm Development and Sales only produced 9.55 t of waste during the year, all of which was non-hazardous waste.This means that an overall eco-efficiency figure of 2.5 tons of waste per employee and year was reached, half a point better than the figure recorded for 2008.Hazardous waste accounted for 21% (3,429 tons) of total waste volume in 2009, while non-hazardous waste accounted for 79% (12,640 tons).Waste management is based on the basic principles of using the most suitable segregation, storage and treatment techniques and always seeks to prevent pollution and comply with prevailing legislation, as laid down by environmental management system's standard procedures.

 

 

 

Health and safety

The activities historically undertaken by Gamesa, along with the results achieved by the launch of this ambitions management plan have led to a positive evolution of the accident rate. Hence, Gamesa ends 2009 with no work-related fatality registered, addressing a cumulative total figure of sixty-three (63) accidents with sick-leave and a number of professional illnesess that rises up to thirty-one (31). These figures have represented a total loss of 2,032 and 458 working days respectively, the lowest values notified ever within the history of the company. Benchmarking activities for the next three years were included and are shown in the following graphs:

 

 

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