Arla wins the Green Power Award 2026

Arla Denmark has won the country’s Green Power Award 2026 in recognition of the company’s targeted work to electrify energy consumption at the dairies and accelerate the transition to renewable energy. The gong, awarded by the interest group Green Power Denmark, is for the company’s targeted efforts to electrify energy consumption at the dairies and reduce dependence on fossil energy.

It is a recognition of Arla’s long-term work to make the supply chain more sustainable while strengthening the resilience of production. Electrification plays a key role in this development, because it both reduces emissions and makes operations less dependent on fossil energy sources.

“We are proud to receive the Green Power Award 2026. It is a recognition that we at Arla, together with our cooperative members, are working purposefully to transform production, reduce the climate footprint and future-proof efficient food production. Electrification is an important step on that journey and shows that we can combine high production efficiency with concrete climate improvements and increased security of supply,” says Line Brandt Pedersen, head of sustainability in the supply chain at Arla.

In recent years, Arla has invested heavily in the work to electrify some of the most energy-intensive processes in dairy production. Among other things, at the dairy in Svenstrup near Aalborg, where Arla uses electric high-temperature heat pumps for spray drying, with similar initiatives being rolled out at several production plants.

The investments in electrification go with Arla’s broader efforts to reduce emissions from the supply chain. Electricity now accounts for a growing share of the company’s total energy consumption, and the transition helps to make production more energy efficient and less vulnerable to fluctuations in the fossil energy markets. Since the end of 2025, Arla has also covered the electricity consumption of all European dairies with electricity from renewable energy sources. This is an important milestone for Arla, where approximately 93% of the company’s total electricity consumption is in Europe, and the result has been achieved through long-term renewable energy agreements and market-based certificates, among other things.