Target's first net zero energy store
What: The Vista California location is the first ever Target Net-Zero energy store.
Why it is important: This store serves as a testing site for sustainability-minded innovations, providing learnings that will help inform future store designs.
This stores journey started in the fall of 2019 with an idea to design solar carports that, alongside rooftop solar, would help offset the store's energy use.
Upon design and implementation of these solar carports the company looked to test out a newer sustainable initiative: CO2 refrigeration, which helps to lower emissions and would eventually be selected to be rolled out in all stores by 2040.
The final redesigned store also introduced more than 1,300 LED lights, which together cut 10% off its total energy bill.