Climate change is one of the greatest challenges for humanity. That’s why we’re:
For the last 30 years, we’ve been on a journey to reduce our carbon emissions. We’ve reduced our net market based emissions by 495.4 ktCO2e. This is in comparison to 1990, despite customer numbers increasing by over 4 million.
We’ve achieved this drop by:
In 2023/24 we self-generated 498GWh of renewable energy, covering 27.3% of our own energy needs.
Our plans for 2030 build on the work of the previous 10 years and include:
We already generate up to 498GWh of renewable energy and plan to expand the use of solar on our sites.
We’re continually upgrading our processes to reduce the energy they use.
We’re replacing fossil fuels with biogas and other low/no carbon fuels at all our sites.
We’re changing our fleet to electric vehicles to cut emissions and help us all breathe cleaner air.
We’re looking at how our supply chain reduces their carbon footprint to help us reduce ours.
Trialing ways to treat waste and control the treatment process to reduce emissions.
Assessing resource recovery opportunities and associated carbon avoidance including producing biomethane.
We pledged to reduce our operational net carbon emissions to zero by 2030. Since then, there have been some material changes to the assumptions used by the water sector. These have a direct impact on the net zero challenge and include:
These developments don’t change our desire to achieve Net Zero which we'll update in 2025. This will be after we have agreed funding and priorities with our regulators. As our understanding evolves we’ll continue to update on progress, challenges, and opportunities.
You can download our original plan and view examples of the progress we’re making:
