Mars accelerates sustainability progress with all US operations now powered by 100% renewable electricity
The achievement forms part of Mars‘ broader Sustainable in a Generation Plan, which aims to cut emissions throughout its value chain while supporting the transition to cleaner energy sources.
USA – Mars, Incorporated has announced that 100% of its direct operations within the United States are now powered entirely by renewable electricity, marking a significant milestone in the company’s ongoing sustainability journey.
Concocted alongside the release of the company’s 2025 Sustainable in a Generation Report, the achievement represents a complete clean-energy transition across a sprawling footprint of domestic facilities.
The green energy transition applies to all Mars manufacturing plants, corporate headquarters, veterinary hospitals, and diagnostic laboratories nationwide.
The complete shift to clean power significantly advanced Mars’ operational decarbonization efforts, yielding a 42.6% absolute reduction in direct Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions when measured against a 2015 baseline.
Crucially, the company met its verified science-based targets for direct operations even as its overall business expanded by approximately 75% during the same ten-year period.
To achieve the 100% threshold, Mars has aggressively expanded its portfolio of wind and solar projects to generate Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) equal to the total electricity consumed by its direct U.S. infrastructure.
Looking beyond its own borders, Mars is leveraging this momentum to target the more complex problem of Scope 3 supply chain emissions.
The company has formally initiated its Renewables Acceleration (RAcc) program, an operational strategy engineered to export renewable energy frameworks to third-party suppliers and agricultural partners.
By 2030, the RAcc initiative is projected to slash value chain emissions by roughly 3 million metric tons, removing approximately 10% of the brand’s total carbon footprint.
As part of this push, Mars finalized a contract with Enel North America to back three new solar installations in Texas, a project designed to inject 1.80 terawatt-hours of clean power into the grid annually.
Mars Chief Executive Officer Poul Weihrauch emphasized that moving past fossil fuels forms the foundation of a resilient business model, protecting key farming communities and manufacturing lines from extreme weather disruptions.
Alongside energy infrastructure changes, the company is committing capital toward raw ingredient sustainability, accelerating roughly 77 climate-smart agricultural initiatives spanning 26 countries.
Backed by a newly structured US$250 million Sustainability Investment Fund, these projects include US$20 million dedicated to climate-smart rice cultivation and multi-million-dollar partnerships with PepsiCo and ADM to implement regenerative wheat practices across thousands of hectares in Europe.
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