Our sustainability
Our journey to zero carbon emissions.
Reducing Good Energy’s emissions
Good Energy exists to enable people to fight the climate crisis. But running our business results in carbon emissions of our own. On this page, you can read about how we’re making the way that we work as green as possible.
To see everything else we’re doing to achieve our purpose of powering a cleaner, greener future – from becoming a heat pump installer to accelerating the transition to green transport – take a look at highlights from our 2022 annual report.
Tracking our progress
Read about the different initiatives we’ve introduced to record and reduce our emissions.
2022 carbon report
Our greenhouse gas emissions for 2022 are shown in the infographic below.
Key achievements from 2022 include:
- Reducing our carbon emissions by 35% compared to 2021.
- Introducing new ways to track our carbon emissions – from setting a monthly carbon reporting KPI to track changes as they happen, to automating how we collect data about employee commuting.
- Launching our Green Champions working group, who engage our people in our efforts to be more sustainable. The group helped us add Terracycle bins to our kitchens, substantially reducing our waste-to-landfill footprint.
How are emissions measured?
We follow the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Standard, which is an internationally recognised way of measuring greenhouse gas emissions. These are split into the following scopes:
- Scope 1 – Direct emissions, such as gas and refrigerants
- Scope 2 – Indirect emissions from electricity usage
- Scope 3 – Indirect emissions from activities such as travel and procurement.
Full details of our 2022 carbon emissions figures are available on pages 29 of our Annual Report.
Setting Science Based Targets
More than 2,000 businesses around the world are already voluntarily working with the Science Based Targets initiative – and we’re proud to be one of those organisations.
Emissions targets are considered ‘science-based’ if they are in-line with what the latest climate science deems necessary to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement – limiting global warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.
Our chosen target
In March 2022, the Science Based Targets initiative approved Good Energy’s near-term science-based target of reducing emissions by 50% by 2030 (from a 2018 base year).
How will we reduce our emissions further?
- Improve how we track emissions from home working, and throughout our supply chain. More extensive tracking means we expect that our emissions will rise compared to where they are at the moment.
- Introduce initiatives such as a Green Home Stewardship policy, to support our people to work in a greener way.
- Continue to engage employees in our progress through our Green Champions group.
- Make our supply chain greener – work with green suppliers and introduce carbon emission data collection to the tendering and onboarding process.
- Improve our digital carbon tracking.
How we offset residual emissions
We offset the carbon emissions that we can’t yet avoid by investing in Gold Standard Projects that improve access to green energy around the world.
In 2022, we offset our workplace emissions by supporting the following project: Biogas Program for the Animal Husbandry Sector in Vietnam. This project works with rural communities in Vietnam to install and maintain biogas generators, which can convert farm waste into renewable biogas, for use as a cooking fuel. The project helps improve health and sanitation, creates jobs and reduces the use of solid fuel such as firewood.
We support similar green energy projects to offset emissions from the gas supplied to our customers.