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Our efforts to expand renewable energy for sustainable daily life

The energy
that keeps
life going

100% renewable
energy
at our global sites

Lighting up the future with our
A cloud in a clear sky.
renewable energy

Lighting up the future with our
A cloud in a clear sky.
renewable energy

A wind turbine against a sunny yet cloudy sky.

From the moment you wake up and check your phone to watch videos right before bed, everything you do needs chips — and to make these chips, you need energy.

What kind of energy? Instead of fossil fuels, Samsung uses renewable energy when making our chips. Renewable energy is energy that can be used over and over without creating pollution, like sunlight and wind. Our focus on renewable energy sources helps to keep our future looking bright.

We ensure our sites
worldwide use
100% renewable energy,

keeping our effort
to sustainable
daily life.

Expansion of renewable energy use

Renewable energy mix
(Global standard)
24.3%
*As of 2023
Renewable energy usage
6,569GWh
*As of 2023

Starting with our US and Chinese business sites that were converted to 100% renewable energy since 2020, we aim to contribute to reducing Scope 2 emissions from electricity use by expanding the use of renewable energy across all of our global business sites by 2050 through forming new PPAs. The DS Division's domestic business sites signed a PPA with SK E&S in November 2023 and Samsung C&T in March 2024 to procure approximately 76.2GWh of renewable energy power annually from 60MW solar power plants starting in 2025, receiving approximately 1,466GWh* in total over the next 20 years.

* With consideration of reduction in annual guaranteed supply due to solar panel deterioration

Overseas Business Sites

Global Renewable Energy Use (Samsung Semiconductor)

Chart showing renewable energy use in the United States and China from 2017 to 2020. We reached 100% of our goal by 2019 and continued to increase use in 2020.
2020
3,560GWh
2021
4,722GWh
2022
5,849GWh
2023
6,569GWh

Samsung Semiconductor has achieved a 100% transition to renewable energy at overseas business sites by 2020, completing such transition at overseas manufacturing sites in the U.S. and China in 2019 and at all of the DS Division's overseas business sites in 2020.

If our lives
Close-up of satellite view of Earth.
Rear view of a person looking at a sunset.
don’t change,
they won’t change
Close-up of glass building showing the reflection of another building with all its lights on.

If our lives
Close-up of satellite view of Earth.
don’t change,
Rear view of a person looking at a sunset. Close-up of glass building showing the reflection of another building with all its lights on.
they
won’t change

Greenhouse gas
reduction due to the
expansion of renewable
energy

2021

2022

2023

Greenhouse gas reduction due to the expansion of renewable energy

This was achieved through various projects such as developing innovative technologies to reduce carbon and building a diverse portfolio to secure renewable energy. Samsung Semiconductor will continue to reduce the energy used in the semiconductor manufacturing process and contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gases.

Samsung’s use of
renewable energy
increases
day by day

to make each of
your days
a bright one.

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