The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstration recently awarded Kraft Heinz up to $170.9 million in Industrial Demonstrations Program funds.
The program promotes widespread implementation of industrial decarbonization technologies with the goal of giving the United States an edge in low- and net-zero carbon manufacturing.
Kraft Heinz’s project, Delicious Decarbonization, plans to upgrade, electrify, and decarbonize its process heat at 10 facilities nationwide using a range of technologies. The technologies include electric heaters, heat pumps, and electric boilers in combination with solar photovoltaic, biogas boilers, solar thermal, and thermal energy storage.
Once implemented, the technologies are expects to reduce emissions by more than 300,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, a 99 percent reduction from 2022’s levels.
The project is part of Kraft Heinz’s goal to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
“This project seeks to help a major American brand achieve deep decarbonization and serve as an example for other U.S. food and beverage companies to reduce emissions from process heat while reducing energy costs,” the Office of Clean Energy Demonstration said.
The project is expected to create approximately 500 construction jobs.
Kraft Heinz requests proposals from experienced engineering-procurement-construction management companies for engineering and construction management of up to 10 facilities.