Our Approach to Sustainability
Our values drive our approachAt EnerSys, sustainability, reliability, and resilience are core to our values and embodied in our daily operations. Our products address global challenges such as climate change, decarbonization, efficient goods distribution, grid reliability, telecommunications, and innovation. Our batteries and energy storage solutions contribute to a resilient, low-carbon future. |
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY BETTER PLANTS PROGRAM
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Better Plants Program helps leading manufacturers boost their resilience and economic competitiveness by supporting improvements in energy efficiency. As part of the program, EnerSys has committed to reducing our energy intensity by 25% over the next ten years with 2020 as our baseline year.
In 2023, EnerSys won the Better Practice Award for the implementation of the EnerSys Operating System (EOS). EnerSys won the Better Project Award in 2024 for implementation of the cold-cube cutting process which significantly reduces emissions and lead exposure.
ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCE SUSTAINABLE COMPANY AWARD
The Award-winning EnerSys Operating System: In 2023, EnerSys won the distinguished Energy Efficiency Initiative of the Year award as part of Environmental Finance’s Sustainable Company Awards. The recognition was given specifically for the implementation of the EOS, a lean management program designed to identify, reduce, or eliminate excess waste and associated costs across its operations. View our press release to learn more.
Our Stakeholders
CUSTOMERS & PARTNERS
As our customers and partners heighten their focus on sustainability, they are expressing a clear desire for their suppliers to follow suit. We understand that our products and services play a crucial role in helping our customers achieve their sustainability objectives, and we are committed to ensuring that our own operations reflect and support these goals.
EMPLOYEES
Employees are also deeply invested in the practices of their employers. Attracting and retaining top talent necessitates aligning with employees’ values and addressing their concerns regarding ESG matters. Similarly, we must extend the same consideration to the families, friends and neighbors within the communities where we operate and reside.
INVESTORS
Investors increasingly recognize companies that excel in ESG metrics as effectively managed and better equipped to navigate future operational, financial and regulatory landscapes. This includes addressing both short and long-term challenges related to climate change and the global shift towards a low-carbon economy.
SUPPLIERS
EnerSys works with more than seven thousand suppliers, sourcing goods and services from all over the world. In 2023, we sent out our first supplier ESG survey, working with our supply chain to begin the process of measuring and reporting on supply chain ESG topics.
REGULATORS
Regulators worldwide are also looking at new corporate requirements around ESG. As a New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) listed company, EnerSys complies with all corresponding U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requirements. The SEC announced its “Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors’’ plan in 2022. While still a few years from required compliance for EnerSys, we are already preparing for this new regulation by aligning a portion of this 2023 Sustainability report with the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and ESRS.
Enhancement & Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors
Materiality Assessment
In alignment with the EnerSys corporate sustainability strategy, we updated our materiality assessment in 2023 to meet double materiality standards, in which we identify and prioritize material risks, opportunities and potential external impacts. The assessment informs our sustainability reporting and disclosure efforts, ensuring that EnerSys reports on the issues most relevant to stakeholders and the business. EnerSys designed the 2023 assessment to engage the company‘s internal subject matter experts (SMEs) and delve into the environmental, social and governance topics that have the most significant bearing on our operations, stakeholders and the world.
MATERIAL TOPICS
As a result of our assessment, we identified 11 recurring themes related to impacts, risks and opportunities. The themes fall under multiple materiality topics. If new themes emerged, we incorporated them into the materiality topics covered in our 2021 Sustainability Report.3 We employed the following three-part process below.
INPUT
In addition to meetings with external SMEs and researching industry issues trends, we interviewed fifteen internal stakeholders in leadership positions including the Chief Executive Officer and Presidents and individuals from Finance, Legal and Investor Relations, and Operations and Engineering.
ANALYSIS
We aggregated the interview data and sorted it into themes, analyzed the theme frequency* and then narrowed them into key topics. These topics were then cross-referenced against topics identified as material by key sustainability reporting frameworks such as ESRS, GRI, and SASB.
ASSESSMENT
A comprehensive assessment of each topic’s relative impact on our financial performance, including potential financial implications, was conducted, utilizing a scoring system that categorized impacts.* A similar scoring system was employed to assess the relative impacts on society, the economy and the environment.*
Sustainability Update 2023
Learn how EnerSys is contributing to building a sustainable future