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Greener future with Aggreko
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ggreko has cemented its position as a green supplier of temporary power, heating and cooling solutions after being certified to the Carbon Trust Standard and achieving ISO 50001:2018 certification.
By implementing ISO 50001, Aggreko has committed to reduce its energy consumption, minimise its carbon footprint and promote sustainable energy usage. This includes applying both internal and external guiding principles including the integration of energy reduction considerations and increasing fuel efficiency in our fleet and solutions offerings for its customers. Replacing the Carbon and Energy Management and Reduction Scheme (CEMARS), the Carbon Trust Standard is the world’s leading independent certification of an organisation’s achievements in managing and reducing carbon emissions. By accrediting Aggreko to the Standard, the Carbon Trust has independently recognised the company as taking a best practice approach to achieving real year-on-year reductions.
As part of its commitment to both accrediting bodies, Aggreko will significantly reduce its power- related carbon emissions. With this pledge in mind, the company has also switched its electricity contract to 100 per cent renewable electricity, with all annual electricity demand required to supply Aggreko’s service centres being generated by offshore wind generators.
Aggreko is also reducing carbon and energy use internally by reviewing its vehicle fleet and has already taken steps to increase energy efficiency and reduce emissions using vehicle tracking, driver training, more electric plug-in vehicles and work planning using technological innovations.
Furthermore, the company provides generators that work with alternative greener fuels such as natural gas, biofuel and hydrotreated vegetable oil, or HVO. This includes providing remote monitoring technology on equipment to improve efficiency and regularly reviewing products to ensure compliance with latest emissions standards. It is also developing renewable energies including modular PV and hybrid solutions that consist of different technologies, batteries and modular solar panels.
Chris Rason, UK managing director at Aggreko, said: “Delivering sustainable growth and limiting the impact our business has on the environment is extremely important for Aggreko. As a business, we have made a number of commitments and by implementing ISO 50001 and getting the Carbon Trust Standard we will ensure that we continue to improve our energy efficiency.
“The Carbon Trust Standard will allow us to monitor and manage our energy performance to help aid year-on-year reductions.
“Through verified environmental impact data, regulation compliance will be ensured, which in turn will help our customers. Working with the Carbon Trust closely will allow us to benchmark our performance and, perhaps most importantly, identify opportunities for improvement and implement these.”
Mr Rason concluded: “Aggreko has a vision to be the greenest provider of temporary power equipment and our aim for the next year is to help customers become greener. As a business, we are taking active responsibility to limit the impact our business has on the environment and we look forward to seeing the positive changes these real commitments through certification will have.”
Toshiba celebrates carbon neutrality
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oshiba Air Conditioning is celebrating seven years of being carbon neutral, after becoming one of the first HVAC supplier in the UK to
achieve the coveted status. Natural Capital Partners presented an award to Toshiba for its commitment to climate leadership. David Dunn, Toshiba’s managing director for new equipment sales, said: “We were the first HVAC manufacturer in the country to make this commitment. “Toshiba took a leadership position as we believed it was one of the most important issues facing the industry and, indeed, society as a whole. As events unfold and scientific understanding develops, it seems clear that the evidence is compelling and that our initiative is well-founded.” The company’s carbon neutral status means that,
through a programme of strict business monitoring and certified offsets, its carbon impact on the environment is zero. For end-users with progressive environmental and procurement policies, it assures that purchasing equipment from Toshiba conforms with the highest environmental standards of corporate social responsibility (CSR). CSR principles are at the heart of Toshiba’s business strategy. On a global level, Toshiba signed the United Nations Global Compact in 2004 and has implemented its key principles concerning human rights, labour and care for the environment. To achieve carbon neutral certification in the
UK, Toshiba works with Natural Capital Partners to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in accordance with The Carbon Neutral Protocol, the internationally recognised gold-standard for carbon neutral certification.
This includes a detailed and independent annual assessment of GHG emissions to quantify the total produced by the business, both directly and indirectly. These include CO2
emissions from
travel, waste, water consumption and energy. This is followed by internal reduction measures to further improve resource efficiency and purchase
of assured carbon offsets to reduce remaining CO2 emissions to zero.
For every tonne of GHG emissions Toshiba produces, the company purchases a verified carbon offset from Natural Capital Partners which guarantees an equivalent amount of GHG emissions is reduced from the atmosphere.
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