1. Our Carbon Footprint Journey SBN Meeting 8 June 2018

2. Back Ground Information
We blend chemicals to make cleaning products for the air conditioning and refrigeration industry ; sell tools and equipment that a service engineer would use
2004 – Moved in to our current premises in Basingstoke
2009 – ISO14001:2004 certified
2010 – carried out a benchmark audit with Carbon Footprint
2017 – ISO14001:2015 certified
Who are we?
2004 – moved into current premises; office space/warehouse/production area fully refurbished including movement sensors in corridors and timed light switches in store rooms & photocopier room & toilets
We have 29 staff & a turnover of £4.8m
2009 –ISO14001:2004 certified
2010 Barry (our owner) met Wendy at a Chamber of Commerce meeting
So what do we measure?

3. What do we measure?
Company car travel/grey fleet travel/ hire car travel
Flights / rail travel / taxi travel
Site gas & electricity consumption
On-site electricity generation (since 2012)
Refrigeration / air conditioning refrigerant emissions
All the travel data comes from expenses/fuel card records
Utilities data comes from invoices
On-site electricity generation from meter readings/export data from FIT payments
Refrigerants from refrigerant tracking forms

4. Tonnes CO2e 2010
24.6 tCO2e
50.8 tCO2e
66.9 tCO2e
22.7 tCO2e
This is the first year we measured CO2 emission and as you can see electricity and company car travel were by far the biggest contributors to our total CO2 emissions of 167 tonnes.
It was decided to focus on the electricity first – so what did we do?

5. What did we do? 2011 – installed 4kw solar PVs £12k
In 2004 already had PIR Sensors in corridors and timed light switched in store rooms/photocopier room/toilets
We are lucky enough to have one side of our roof facing directly south, so in 2011 we installed 4kw solar PVs.
That went so well that in 2013 we installed another 43kw solar PVs – now generate 30% of our consumption

6. What did we do?
2013 – installed LED lighting throughout the building including the warehouse (£31k)
2015 – replaced ground floor air conditioning/heating (£16k)
2016 – replaced first floor air conditioning / heating and replaced gas boiler (£46k)
2017 – replaced 3 fork lift truck chargers with one (£2k)
In 2013, installed LED lighting throughout the building including the warehouse
2015/16 replaced air con/heat pumps throughout offices – coefficient of performance rating 4. Also replaced faulty gas boiler
2017 took out 3 old and large fork lift truck chargers & replaced them with 1 which is the size of a brief case. We gained 3 pallet spaces plus there were insurance implications i.e. nothing to be stored within a metre of the old chargers

7. Pay-back – LED Lighting & Solar PVs only
Capital Cost
£90,000
Savings per Year (6 year base)
£ 8,969
Pay back
10 years
Capital Cost - Picked out the items that we believe have affected electricity consumption the most.
Average per annum savings £8,969
Dependent on weather – inverter breakdowns

8. Annual Electric Consumption (kWh) 2011 – 2017 (based on energy invoices)
As you can see from the graph our consumption of grid electricity has almost halved 2011.
Although we have had few blips, the downward trend continues.

9. Tonnes CO2e 2018
Our site electricity CO2 emission have fallen from 66.9 tonnes in 2010 to 22.7 tonnes and company car travel is by far the highest at 53.5 tonnes.

10. Total tCO2e
Our total CO2 emissions in the benchmark year was 167 tonnes and in 2018 we are down to 118

11. Tonnes of CO2e per Employee
Tonnes of CO2e per employee also has a downward trend

12. Turnover per tonne of CO2e 2010-2018
Turnover per tonne of CO2e shows an upward trend…thankfully!

13. What next? Short-Term Review company car policy
Review electricity supply – possible move to all green energy supply
Medium Term
Carbon off-setting
Possible replacement gas blower heater in warehouse – currently running well
Company car policy – as you can imagine very emotive but also not as easy as you might think.
We looked at electric cars, but 6 of our 7 company cars do over 20k miles each per year. Some much more – up to 40k
So electric cars are out of the question at the moment – lack of infrastructure/length of time to charge etc.
Set rules about CO2 emissions for cars e.g. 120g and/or look at hybrid cars.
Review electricity supplier – move to all green sourced electricity supply

14. Why measure your carbon footprint?
Identifies the high tCO2e categories
Enables the business to focus investment
Shows continuous improvement (ISO14001)
Identifies high tCO2e – if you want to tackle your CO2 emissions you need to know the main culprits
Focus Investment – need to invest in the areas that will make a difference to CO2 emissions and if possible, have a positive impact on the business.
ISO14001 – continuous improvement is important but also our Auditor was amazed that a company our size measured our carbon footprint and took it seriously

15. Questions?