Fresh Roasted Coffee's Sustainability Report - February 2026
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Welcome back to Fresh Roasted Coffee's monthly Sustainability Report!
After a long, cold winter, we’re beginning to see the first signs of a seasonal increase in solar generation here at Fresh Roasted Coffee. As the days grow longer and the sun climbs higher in the sky, our solar array is starting to stretch its legs again.
February brought a welcome boost in renewable energy production, along with continued emissions reductions from our clean roasting technology.
Powering Sustainability: An Early Boost
During February, our solar array generated 45.648 megawatt hours (MWh) of renewable electricity. That exceeded our projected generation of 39.320 MWh for the month.
A stretch of unseasonably warm weather and bright sunshine helped push production above expectations, something we’re always happy to see this time of year as winter begins to loosen its grip.
Producing this much renewable electricity helped avoid approximately 32.3 U.S. tons of carbon emissions that would otherwise have been produced through conventional grid electricity sources.
For comparison, 45.65 MWh of energy would
- power 45 average U.S. homes for a month (assuming ~899 kWh per home/month) US EPA
- brew 456,000 cups of coffee (assuming 100Wh per brew on a standard machine) Silicon Valley Power
We used the EPA’s 2022 national average emissions factor of ~1405 lbs CO₂ per MWh, to determine that our facility avoided 32.3 U.S. tons of CO₂ emissions by using a renewable energy source for power.
Cleaner Roasting: How'd We Stack Up?
Fresh Roasted Coffee roasted about 218,023 pounds of coffee across our Loring Smart Roasters in February, almost 10% more than the prior month.
In addition to renewable energy, Fresh Roasted Coffee continues to reduce emissions through the use of Loring Smart Roasters, an advanced roasting system designed to dramatically reduce energy use and air emissions compared to traditional batch roasters equipped with thermal oxidizers.
Compared to conventional roasting technology, the efficiency of our Loring roasters helped avoid an additional 12.80 U.S. tons of carbon emissions during the month.
When we combine the impact of renewable energy generation and clean roasting technology, the results become even more meaningful.
Total emissions avoided in February:
45.1 U.S. tons of CO₂
For comparison, that equals
Transparency and Measuring Our Impact
At Fresh Roasted Coffee, sustainability isn’t something we treat as a vague goal or a marketing claim. It’s something we measure.
Every month we track the energy produced by our solar array, the coffee roasted across our Loring systems, and the emissions reductions those technologies make possible. By putting real numbers behind these efforts, we can better understand how our investments in renewable energy and efficient roasting equipment are reducing our environmental footprint over time.
Sharing these reports publicly is part of that commitment to transparency. It allows our customers, partners, and team members to see the tangible impact of the systems powering our roastery.
While a single month’s numbers may seem small in the grand scheme of things, the cumulative effect of cleaner energy and more efficient roasting adds up over time, and that’s where real progress happens.
Doing Coffee A World Of Good
Fresh Roasted Coffee was founded on the idea that great coffee and responsible practices should go hand in hand.
Investments in renewable energy infrastructure and efficient roasting technology are part of our long-term commitment to reducing the environmental impact of coffee roasting while continuing to deliver high-quality coffee to customers everywhere.
As we move toward spring, increasing daylight and stronger solar production will continue to power our facility, and help us move one step closer to a cleaner future for coffee.
Because doing coffee right also means doing coffee responsibly.