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Net Zero Calculator
Step 1: Working out your business emissions
First, we need some information about your business type and size – and the fuels you use and carbon-emitting activities you do – to calculate your likely emissions and carbon costs. If you don’t have all the information to hand, you can save your progress and come back at a later date to add more.
This information will help us to understand more about your business sector and size.
Choose which Scope 1 (direct emissions) and Scope 2 (purchased energy) emissions you want to include in your calculation.
What scope 1 emissions sources can you provide data for?
What scope 2 emissions sources can you provide data for?
Share data about the fuels you use directly on site in your business on an annual basis.
Select Fuels burned to enter fuels burned
You can include travel in both company-owned vehicles and expensed mileage in employee-owned vehicles in this section.
Select Employee mileage expensed to enter expensed mileage
Select Business travel in a company owned vehicle to enter business travel details
Select Refrigerants to enter refrigerants consumption
Select Fugitive emissions / other processes to enter fugitive emissions / other processes consumption
This section also assesses the potential scope for on-site renewable energy generation.
Select Purchased electricity to enter electricity consumption
Select Purchased heat to enter purchased heat consumption
Select Purchased steam to enter steam processes consumption
Step 2: Your Initial Results
Your business’s estimated emissions and carbon costs from now to 2050 are illustrated right**. If you haven’t completed all the questions asked, you can save your progress (just fill in the form below) and then come back to add more information at a later date.
Save your calculation (optional)
To save your calculations so you can access and add to them in the future, please key in your business contact details below.
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Step 3: Select Net Zero Technologies
The next step is to calculate the potential impact of the various actions you can take to reduce your emissions. To do this, select options from the following net-zero technologies.
Optimising energy use via accurate monitoring and operation, technology upgrades (including lighting and refrigeration), insulation and behavioural change
Do you currently utilise energy efficiency solutions?
What year did you install energy efficiency solutions?
Do you plan to add energy efficiency solutions?
Recycling heat for use in pre-heating or heat pump applications, for absorption chillers or even to generate power via an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) generator
Do you currently utilise heat recovery solutions?
What year did you install energy efficiency solutions?
Do you plan to add heat recovery solutions?
Electrification of heat using ground-source, water-source or air-source heat pumps
Do you currently utilise heat pump solutions?
What year did you install heat pump solutions?
Do you plan to add heat pump solutions?
Low-carbon heat generation from biomass boilers and CHP (wood chip or pellet), or to make energy via anaerobic digestion (using on-site waste) and switching to biofuels (biodiesel, bioethanol, bio-LPG)
Do you currently utilise bio energy solutions?
What year did you install bio energy solutions?
Do you plan to add bio energy solutions?
Reducing energy emissions and cost with on-site CHP plant utilising low-carbon fuels such as biomass, biogas and (in time) green hydrogen or ammonia
Do you currently utilise combined heat and power solutions?
What year did you install combined heat and power solutions?
Do you plan to add combined heat and power solutions?
Using available roof, land or even carpark space to generate on-site power from daylight, or sourcing from a third-party via a Corporate PPA
Do you currently utilise solar PV solutions?
What year did you install solar PV solutions?
Do you plan to add solar PV solutions?
Installing turbines to generate carbon-free energy in suitable on-site locations, or sourcing from a third-party via a Corporate PPA
Do you currently utilise wind energy solutions?
What year did you install wind energy solutions?
Do you plan to add wind energy solutions?
Optimise energy use, especially when teamed with on-site generation, and tap into demand-side-response (DSR) opportunities
Do you currently utilise battery storage solutions?
What year did you install battery storage solutions?
Do you plan to add battery storage solutions?
Switching to EVs and installing on-site charging facilities to reduce fleet and supply chain emissions
Do you currently utilise electric vehicle solutions?
What year did you install electric vehicle solutions?
Do you plan to add electric vehicle solutions?
In time, new solutions will become commercially available, from fuel cells to green hydrogen and carbon capture
Do you plan to add future technology solutions, if so, when?
Supply and offset options
You may be counting on securing 100% renewable for your power supply and/or investing in carbon offset projects to support your net zero goals. But increasing scarcity and expense mean that first reducing emissions by other means is far more secure, cost effective and sustainable.
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