OUR ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITMENT Strengthening Our Environmental Stewardship While we continually look for improvement opportunities, over the last year we prioritized an assessment to understand our energy and carbon footprint. Below, we share more about this initiative as well as other key environmental actions related to our facilities, distribution and fleet management, fuel operations, and water and waste management. Launching Our Energy distribution centers (DCs). For Scope 3 emissions, Investing in Renewable Energy Purchasing and Carbon Assessment also considered indirect, we focused on category Renewable Energy While our stores do not currently have solar panels 11 of the GHG Protocol — use of sold products — installed, at 45 stores we participate in community We take our responsibility for environmental which captures GHG emissions related to our fuel While we improve our data regarding energy solar gardens, where we commit to purchasing stewardship seriously and recognize that we sales. While we recognize that this does not and carbon footprint, we continue to evaluate an amount of solar- and wind-generated energy have a role to play in addressing the challenge capture the entirety of our Scope 3 emissions, we renewable energy options as part of our energy from the garden, resulting in an environmental of global climate change. To inform our energy believe category 11 is one of the most significant management strategy. offset of 25%-100% of the energy usage for and climate strategy moving forward and set a sources of our Scope 3 impact. participating stores. baseline against which to measure our progress, Solar Power Installation we began collecting data on our energy use and Casey’s GHG emissions from locations and As we began FY 2022, our third DC was newly associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, vehicles will be calculated using the U.S. EPA’s operational in Joplin, Missouri, and built to starting with data for calendar year 2021. Data in GHG Emission Factors Hub and the GHG utilize solar-generated energy to fulfill the 45 this assessment includes electricity, gas, stationary Protocol’s Corporate Accounting and Reporting orders of 400-600 nearby Casey’s stores. The We participate in community solar gardens fuel use and refrigerant use at our convenience Standard calculation methodology, as well as 250,000-square-foot facility has 1,408 solar at 45 stores. stores, as well as available fuel usage from our the GHG Protocol Scope 2 guidance and the panels installed, which generate, on average, vehicle fleet. GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) 2,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity per Accounting and Reporting Standard. We will day1 since coming online in July 2021. This energy Using this data, we have started to calculate our disclose our Scope 1 and 2 emissions data output supports the refrigeration needs of the Scope 1, Scope 2 and select Scope 3 GHG beginning in 2023 and our material Scope 3 facility, which account for the majority of its emissions. Scope 1 emissions, considered direct, emissions data in 2024. electrical load, reducing the amount of purchased include fuel consumed by our fleet, fuels burned electricity needed from the grid and ultimately at our facilities and fugitive refrigerant emissions. our Scope 2 GHG emissions. Scope 2 emissions, considered indirect, include purchased electricity for our stores, offices and 1 D ue to an issue with one of the system’s inverters, it has run at 75% capability since coming online. 47 Casey’s 2022 ESG Report
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