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In Scotland, Kimberly-Clark has celebrated the opening of a wind farm that will supply around 80 per cent of its UK electrical power needs.

The farm is the largest wind asset owned by Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT), a company managed by Octopus Energy Generation. Kimberly-Clark has a Power Purchase Agreement for the energy generated.

The 50 MW 12-turbine Cumberhead facility will supply the company with approximately 160,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of renewable energy every year. This will result in a total emissions reduction of 55,625 MTCO2e per year - the equivalent of taking 38,628 passenger vehicles off the road every year.

Craig Bowman, general manager, Kimberly-Clark Professional UK & Ireland said: "It is through responsible and innovative business partnerships and investments in new technology like this agreement with ORIT that enables us to make significant changes in this decisive decade and reach our decarbonisation goals.

"We adopt a life cycle approach to sustainability, starting by designing products to reduce consumption, reducing the use of natural resources and diverting our manufacturing waste from landfill. This enables us to provide customers with high performance products and systems that help them reduce usage and waste. By reducing energy use (scope one) and prioritising and using renewable energy in our operations (scope two) we are reducing the carbon impact of our products (customer scope three emissions)."

This project is part of Kimberly-Clark UK & Ireland's wider sustainability strategy and its ambition to move to 100 per cent renewable energy by 2030. To deliver this, the company is also working with Octopus on developing on-site solar power as well as green hydrogen projects.