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CASE STUDY: COCA-COLA EUROPEAN PARTNERS

Through its sustainability strategy "Avanzamos," Coca-Cola

European Partners established a series of environmental

objectives it wanted to reach by 2025. One of those objectives

is to increase energy efficiency, which drove the company to

replace the lighting in its Martorelles (Barcelona) facility.

For the project, the Coca-Cola European Partners selected

Digital Lumens intelligent LED fixtures which contain smart

sensors and instrument the Internet of Things (IoT), as well as the

advanced lighting control system to manage light intensity and

the shutdown of the fixtures. With the intelligent lighting system,

the goal was to achieve more than 90% in lighting-related

Digital Lumens' IoT technology increased Coca-Cola European Partners' energy efficiency across 90,000 m2

THE NEXT LEVEL IN FIGURESEnergy cost reduction

93.30%

Energy savings

3.8 million kWh / year

Emissions reduction

1,265 tCO2

Amount of CO2 eliminated

Absorbed by 47 pines / year

●Area of action greater than

90,000 m2

●Power reduction

474.60 kW

Reduction of fixtures

4,200

The Largest Installation of IoT-Compatible Intelligent

Lighting in Spain

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energy savings and improve lighting conditions over the

course of three years.

The renovation of 23,539 m2 in warehouse areas was

completed between 2018 and 2019. Up next, the

production area and additional warehouse spaces

will get intelligent LED fixtures which will complete

the installation of energy-efficient intelligent lighting

across 90,000 m2.

The intelligent LED fixtures and lighting control achieved

greater than 90% in energy savings and in some instances

exceeded 97% which represents 3.8 million kWh per

year and 1,265 Tm of CO2 per year. This reduction in CO2

emissions is equal to the carbon absorbed in a year by a

small forest of 47 adult stone pines (a pine tree species

that absorbs the most CO2).

Before the installation of new fixtures, the project

engineers calculated the optimal distribution of the

intelligent lighting systems in order to maximize savings

and improve the quality of the lighting with a minimal

number of fixtures.

"We drew the Coca-Cola factory in three dimensions and redistributed the

intelligent lighting system to see how it behaved. Once this simulation was done,

we implemented different measurement systems throughout the factory to

analyze the energy consumption. Then we installed a demonstration system

to verify that the actual savings data corresponded to the consumption estimated

in the study and to show that the installation was perfectly viable."

– Gabriel Butler, Genia Global Energy

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In the comparison below, we can see the difference between an old lighting system of fluorescents,

and intelligent LED lighting.

• The sensors embedded in the intelligent LED fixtures harnessed the daylight that enters

through the skylights to illuminate the facility

• Reduction of light points is approximately 4-to-1

Before & After

Figure 1: Before the Digital Lumens installation, when the plant had fluorescent lighting

Figure 2: After the installation of LED luminaires

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Daylight Harvesting for Greater Efficiency

The plant used Daylight Harvesting, a lighting strategy where the sensors embedded in the intelligent

LED fixtures use natural light to illuminate the area without compromising the quality of light to increase

energy conservation and savings.

The chart above shows data belonging to the whole plant and in the photo we can see how the lights in

the storage area are completely turned off during the day. The savings over the course of a three-day

period are in red.

Figure 3: Savings from Daylight Harvesting

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Through the installation of Digital Lumens’

energy efficient light fixtures and controls at the

Barcelona plant, the Coca-Cola European Partners

have created a benchmark for success. This

project was given the “Best Energy Project of the

Year Award” by the AEE (Association of Energy

Engineers) which has chapters in more than

90 countries. The award, which was delivered

within the framework of the iENER'19 Congress,

recognizes the excellence of professionals

and their actions to increase energy efficiency

and sustainability.

In addition to conserving more energy and

achieving significant savings, the intelligent LED

fixtures also instrument the entire plant with

facility and process monitoring capabilities to

create non-lighting energy savings.

"The project to renew the lighting, which was

launched in 2017 and will end in 2019, is aimed

at reducing energy consumption. The annual

savings exceed 3.5 million kWh/year," explained

Pedro Vinhas, VP Supply Chain de Coca-Cola

European Partners Iberia. The Barcelona plant was

inaugurated in 2006 with 5,500 fluorescent lights

that are now replaced by 1,300 state-of-the-art

intelligent LED fixtures. The plant achieved over

93% in lighting-related energy savings compared

to the original lighting fixtures and the net power

has been reduced by almost half a gigawatt.

"The new lighting, in addition to being much more

efficient, allows the luminaire to be controlled by

the luminaire and to establish different working

hours depending on the staff’s presence. This

gives us a lot of versatility and allows us to adjust

the plant’s lighting with great precision," says

Pedro Vinhas.

" With this installation, Coca-Cola European Partners

improved the lighting quality in its facilities,

optimized the patterns, and the distribution of

the lighting to reinforce the safety of the workers

and reduced energy consumption in the plant,"

he concludes.

CASE STUDY : COCA-COLA EUROPEAN PARTNERS

Best Energy Project of the Year

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