The low-carbon excellence award is a system run by the nationwide global warming prevention network that honors the global warming prevention activities by various organizations working on aiming to build a low carbon society for the next generation.

This is the seventh time the award ceremony has been held.

This year, there were 951 entries nationwide but only 26 organizations consisting of 7 organizations from the civic sector, 3 organizations from the municipal sector, 9 organizations from the school division, and 7 organizations from the corporate division, were selected to contest for the Minister of Environment and Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Awards through presentations. Among them was Miyagi Co-op.

Miyagi Co-op was honored with “Low-Carbon 2017” Excellence Award for being part of the 26 finalists as a result of its initiatives in "CO2 reduction by SVO cogeneration generator".

The cogeneration generator uses SVO (Straight Vegetable Oil) which is filtered waste vegetable oil from Miyagi Co-op store as fuel to supply electricity and recovers high-temperature thermal energy generated concurrently as waste heat recovery. It is a system that utilizes energy effectively.

According to the Co-op it was a great opportunity to participate in the "Low Carbon 2017" award competition where reports and exchanges of wonderful efforts regarding nationwide CO2 reduction prevention, global warming prevention were carried out.

The experience is believed to serve as a great encouragement for future activities of the co-op.