Renesas Electronics Corporation
Greenhouse gas emissions & sustainability report data
Figures are as stated in the company's own report and may use different boundaries, units or methods (for example market-based vs location-based Scope 2), so compare with care.
📈 Emissions by Report Period
| Report period | Headline emissions figure reported |
|---|---|
| 2015-04 to 2016-03 | 1.1M tons CO2e (energy-originated) |
Each row is the headline figure extracted from a different report; scope coverage and methodology can change between years.
✅ Reported Environmental Achievements
- Developed MCUs for Battery Management Systems (BMS) achieving 60-65% reduction in power consumption compared to competitor products.
- Developed IGBT technology reducing switching loss by 20% and conductive loss by 10%, reducing overall system-level loss by 15%.
- Developed radar MMIC reducing power consumption by 67% compared to current SiGe processes, and by 40% compared to larger scale RFCMOS processes.
- Developed processor technologies for automotive SoCs achieving best-in-class power efficiency of 13.8 TOPS/W.
- R-Car solutions improve CNN performance efficiency by 20%, and PMIC solutions reduce power loss by up to 33%.
- Developed model-based design technique to reduce power consumption of on-vehicle LSIs, optimizing dedicated circuits for image recognition processing.
- DDR5 memory interface chips improve bandwidth power efficiency by 16%.
- Introduced I3C intelligent switch devices reducing complexity of high-performance system designs and offering very low power.
- 5G beamformer IC family with 33% lower power consumption, leading to 8.4Kt of reduced/avoided GHG per year.
- 8th generation IGBTs reducing power loss by more than 30% and increasing energy efficiency.
🌱 ESG Focus Areas
Environmental