Sustainability
A sustainable organisation is an organisation which, together with its stakeholders, reaches its targets with the least possible resource consumption and drain of Earth's scarce resources. Vestas' production and installation of wind power plants coupled with the production of more raw materials and components is a very energy-intensive process. Consequently, Vestas has defined a goal of consistently increasing its share of green energy and reduce waste in its production. Our wind power plants must be as light as possible and built by accessible and reusable materials.
In terms of energy, the challenge is that renewable electricity is not accessible in all markets and that transport accounts for a large share of the overall energy consumption. Each turbine transport requires ten lorries, pilot cars and cranes. Therefore, rail transport must account for a greater share of total transports. Vestas has defined a 2011 green energy target of 40 per cent, and this should increase going forward. In the third quarter of 2011, the figure was 43 per cent. However, safety takes top priority because errors can have fatal consequences for the colleagues, customers and other collaboration partners involved. Vestas' safety endeavours have been successful, and the incidence of industrial injuries has been reduced to 3.3 per one million working hours. The incidence rate must be further reduced, because our customers demand it and our employees are entitled to it.
