OREANDA-NEWS. July 02, 2012. Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503)announced today the immediate issuance of the Mitsubishi Electric Group's environmental report for fiscal 2012 ending March 31, 2012 at http://www.MitsubishiElectric.com/company/environment.

Since 1993, the Mitsubishi Electric Group has adopted a new environmental plan every three years to set medium-term targets and policies, and each year, the Group reports the results of its activities of the past year.

 The report launched today outlines the operations of Mitsubishi Electric and its 114 domestic and 68 overseas affiliates and their efforts to contribute to low-carbon, recycling-oriented societies through group-wide environmental activities. A few examples are presented below.

CO2 emissions from manufacturing operations reduced to 933,000 tons (achieved target)
 Group-wide CO2 emissions from manufacturing operations in the fiscal year ending March 2012 were reduced to 933,000 tons, surpassing the Group's target of 955,000 tons. This was due to improved productivity and installations of photovoltaic systems, real-time energy control and other power saving equipment.

 The Group's Sixth Environmental Plan, covering FYs 2010-2012, emphasized installation and effective use of photovoltaic systems as well as more efficient cooling and lighting systems. It also focused on CO2 reductions through energy improvements in the production process, as well as real-time energy control of individual lines and equipment by using Mitsubishi Electric's energy measuring unit EcoMonitor and energy-saving data collection server EcoServer. As a result, the Group reduced a total of 106,000 tons in CO2 emissions over the three years, with 59,000 tons resulting from equipment upgrades and 47,000 tons resulting from improvements on production lines.

 In the Mitsubishi Electric Group's Environmental Vision 2021, the Group has set a long-term target of reducing total CO2 emissions from manufacturing operations by 30 percent compared with the fiscal year ending March 1991. In the current Seventh Environmental Plan, the Group aims to further reduce CO2 emissions by 121,000 tons by March 2015.