1.3 million pizzas with solar power

Gustavo Gusto produces with a PV system from E.ON

22-Oct-2024

A good pizza needs three things above all: good, hand-formed dough, fresh ingredients and plenty of sunshine. But the sun doesn't just ripen the tomatoes for the dough, fruity sauce and toppings. In future, the sun will also supply energy for the production of premium frozen pizzas at Gustavo Gusto's plant in Thuringia.

The rooftop photovoltaic system planned and installed by E.ON Deutschland will generate enough solar power to produce more than 1.3 million frozen pizzas per year in a climate-friendly manner.

The PV system with an output of over 314 kilowatt peak (kWp) was installed on a roof area of over 2,300 square meters. Philipp Klenner, member of the E.ON Deutschland Management Board responsible for photovoltaic solutions, says: "The system we installed at Gustavo Gusto saves up to 132 tons of CO2 per year - that's roughly equivalent to the CO2 emissions that a combustion car would produce if it circumnavigated the equator 17 times. From a small system on a private home to large rooftop systems like the one at Gustavo Gusto and solar parks - photovoltaics are making an important contribution to our shared path to decarbonization."

The frozen pizza manufacturer produces several hundred thousand pizzas every day at two sites in Germany. At the Artern plant in Thuringia, Gustavo Gusto deliberately focuses on using its own solar power for the entire production process. Christoph Schramm, founder and Managing Director of Gustavo Gusto, says: "This new system is a further step in the expansion of our climate-friendly and sustainable production: the electricity generated on the roofs is used directly in the systems in the production halls below. The surplus electricity is therefore only fed into the grid during off-peak times and at weekends."

Good to know: As Germans consume an average of 4.6 kilograms of frozen pizzas per year*, the amount produced in Artern using solar power can satisfy the hunger of the equivalent of over 130,000 Germans.

* Source: Statista (2024) - Sales of frozen pizzas in Germany until 2023

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