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RENEWABLE ENERGY

Energy is a scarce resource on our plantations, which are located in remote areas. Energy conservation has become an essential practice

in ensuring continual and smooth operations of our plantations. In order to reduce our reliance on non-renewable energy sources, we

have designed our palm mills to use around 98% of energy from renewable resources such as palm shells and fibre for boiler feeds.

By using renewable energy, we avoided the use of more than 8 million litres of diesel in the reporting year of 2013 at our RSPO

plantations and PROPER-audited mills. The estates and mills are not connected to the grid.

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Palm Shell

36.1%

35.8%

Fibre

62.1%

62.0%

61.5%

Diesel

1.8%

1.9%

2.7%

Litres of Diesel Avoided by Using Biomass

9,044,422

9,523,804

8,803,829

We further conserve energy by providing electricity to employees’ homes on the estates during certain hours and use energy-saving

electrical equipment and lightings. Our employees are fully informed of the importance of energy conservation. Stickers are placed

at various locations in our plantations, mills and living areas to remind our employees to conserve energy.

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