Budweiser will donate 5 million kWh of surplus renewable energy to the UK grid to mark the G7 summit, which gets underway in Cornwall next week.
The brewing company says the donated electricity is enough to power the English county for the duration of the talks.
In 2018 Budweiser signed an unsubsidised solar power purchase agreement to build two solar farms which would produce enough green electricity to power operations at its two major UK breweries in Magor, South Wales and Samlesbury, Lancashire
The company says that since then, an ongoing programme to reduce energy consumption and increase renewable power via a wind turbine has resulted in a surplus of green electricity which can be fed back into the national grid.
Budweiser will acknowledge G7 leaders and their delegates in the fight against climate change in a social media campaign ahead of the Summit.
The summit gets underway on 11 June and ends on 13 June.
Budweiser’s UK president Paula Lindenberg said: “World Environment Day and the G7 Summit are all about collaboration to address urgent environmental issues affecting the whole planet.
“To show our support to the G7 leaders and delegates for their actions to tackle climate change, we’re delighted to offset almost 5 million kwh with green electricity.
“We’ve worked hard to be able to be in a position to not only power all our UK brewing operations with 100% renewable electricity, but now to produce a surplus for the nation.”


