Diamond Denim’s solar plant readies for launch
09/01/2023
The system will have capacity to generate renewable energy of up to 4.25 megawatts-peak (MWp), which would amount to 10% of the producer’s total consumption.
Supplied by Lahore’s DSG Energy, the panels are to form part of Diamond’s new garment division building, for which it hopes to achieve platinum-level certification by the US Green Building Council’s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) programme. Approximately 20% of this eco-minded site’s electricity consumption will come from solar, helping it bring down its carbon emissions by about nine tonnes per day.
Later, the denim mill plans to tap an additional 6.5% of solar power by doubling its initial number of panels before the close of 2025, taking total consumption to 16.5%. It currently gets roughly 35-40% of the energy for its internal boiler system from agricultural biomass, with the rest coming from natural gas.
Parent company Sapphire, meanwhile, plans to draw 25% of its energy consumption from renewable sources, in line with the firm’s wider sustainability strategy.
Diamond Denim is also soon set to release its first collection made from Good Earth Cotton, a “climate-positive” regenerative cotton crop that delivers end-to-end, real-time traceability based on FibreTrace’s “indestructible” luminescent pigment solution.
Image: Diamond Denim.
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