As a key organisation in the energy industry within the UK North West region, we strongly believe we have a major role in helping our customers, suppliers and the wider community to become more carbon neutral. Everybody relies on electricity, but carbon reduction doesn’t just stop at being energy-savvy or using clean renewable electricity. The construction and maintenance of electrical networks alone can have a huge impact on the environment.

We have ambitious targets to become a carbon neutral company by 2032 and we understand it is only achievable if we first educate and get the commitment of our employees to this important goal. We therefore decided to join The Carbon Literacy Project to help and ensure that we make individual and business decisions with carbon footprint in mind at all times.

We are now more mindful of how we are planning projects, how many journeys we are making, and we are now incentivising our staff to help us with providing new technology solutions to customers so that they can reduce their carbon impact too.

As a company, we are keen to help our customers, suppliers and the wider community to become more sustainable and carbon neutral, which is why we devised plans for 2022 that will see us collaborating with other organisations. We are developing our own Carbon Literacy educational material and are going to use it to educate our customers and our supply chain, so that they too can take their own Carbon Literacy journey and become influencers.