It also uses a large amount of electricity to produce our pets their meals, but from today that electricity is 100 per cent from renewables.

In a 10 year partnership between CWP Renewables and Nestlé Australia, the Power Purchase Agreement will see all Nestlé sites make the switch to renewable electricity.

The PPA will source clean electricity from CWP Renewables' Sapphire and Crudine Ridge wind farms in NSW.

The Blayney pet food plant is one of the company's largest users of electricity consuming the equivalent of 4,600 households in a year and Blayney Factory Manager Oliver Woodward said that the agreement would allow them to become net zero by 2050.

"Across all Nestlé sites in Australia, the switch to renewable electricity will see the company avoid around 73,000 tonnes of carbon emissions each year," he said.

Across Australia Nestlé operate six Australian factories, two distribution centres, three corporate offices, 20 retail boutiques, and a laboratory.

The Blayney factory also uses natural gas in its pet food operation but at the moment there are no firm plans to replace either the equipment used with electricity or other technologies to reduce its gas usage.

"We'll be working on improving the amount of renewable energy we use," Mr Woodward said. "Right now we're focused on renewable electricity as we work towards reducing our emissions."

With such a large footprint the potential for generating electricity at the Blayney plant through solar panels is not one that the company is investigating Mr Woodward said.

"We're experts at making pet food - that's why we're leaving electricity generation to the experts in that field and have partnered with CWP Renewables," he said.

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