Your home Your business Installation and maintenance Trade About us Powerhouse Home | About us | Responsibility | Environment Your account RESPONSIBILITY ENVIRONMENT Protecting the environment and lessening our impact upon it are fundamental to sustainable business. As a supplier and distributor of power, our responsibility is three-fold: to act to reduce our impact on the drivers of climate change through our internal business activities; to reduce that of our customers by supplying them with low carbon power and to help customers and the Island as a whole use energy more efficiently. We have already helped Jersey reduce its overall carbon emissions by a third since the mid-Nineties by switching from on-Island generation using oil to a long-term strategy to import low carbon supplies from France via a network of subsea interconnectors. Our third such cable, Normandie 3, was installed in 2014. It doubles our import capacity and enables us to meet the Island’s entire demand for electricity from guaranteed low carbon supplies from nuclear and hydro sources. We also continue to invest in research into large scale renewable technologies such and tidal and wind power. As a business, we have undertaken several initiatives to reduce our environmental impact from our day-to-day activities. The States of Jersey gave us ECO-ACTIVE Business Leader status in April 2012 following a British Safety Council Five-Star environmental audit. The audit provided a road map for the implementation of an Environmental Management System (EMS) which covers air and water based emissions, waste minimisation, water use and energy efficiency. As part of that efficiency we installed the largest Photo Voltaic (PV) array in the Channel Islands at our Powerhouse administration office and which generates over 20,000 units a year. Emissions We voluntarily began reporting our Green House Gas Emissions in line with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 (Strategic and Directors’ Reports) Regulations 2013. We use the DEFRA "Environmental Reporting Guidelines: Including mandatory greenhouse gas emissions reporting guidance June 2013". The methodology breaks down the emissions in to scopes (please see below); our methodology is reviewed by Mott MacDonald to ensure we are applying it correctly. The above Regulations and reporting guidelines link in with the Kyoto Protocol, which has six reportable Green House Gases; Carbon dioxide (CO2) Methane (CH4) Nitrous oxide (N2O) Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) Perfluorocarbons (PFCs) Sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) The individual quantities of these emissions are calculated and added up and finally expressed as CO2e or carbon dioxide equivalent, it is a standard unit for measuring carbon footprints. The idea is to express the impact of each different greenhouse gas in terms of the same amount of CO2 that would create the same amount of global warming. This way, a carbon footprint consisting of lots of different greenhouse gases can be expressed as a single number. The below table gives information on JE's GHG emissions: 2013-2014 (Tonnes of CO2e) 2012-2013 (Tonnes of CO2e) Scope 1: Combustion of fuel & operation of plant. 65,722 123,618 Scope 2: Electricity transmission and distribution losses. 1,116 1,381 Scope 3: Electricity Importation (Energy from Waste and Électricité de France) 21,972 23,800 Gross Emissions 88,810 148,799 Company's chosen intensity measurement: grams of CO2e per Kilo Watt hour (g CO2e KWh) of distributed electricity* * Distributed electricity includes transmission losses of the electricity through our network and internal usage. 144 225 Our average gross emission of Carbon Dioxide has been approximately 50,000 tonnes per year for the past five financial years*. In the financial year October 2012 – September 2013 we emitted nearly three times that much, 148,788 tonnes. This was due to on-Island generation using oil and also including other Greenhouse Gases on our calculation. Increased on-Island generation was due the failure of the EDF 1 Cable in June 2012. A milder winter in 2014 meant less on-Island generation and our emission factor fell to 144 grams CO2e per KWh much lower than both: Oil at 265 grams CO2e per KWh** and Gas at 234 grams CO2e per KWh**. With Normandie 3 operational from October 2014, we expect the unprecedented low level of around 20g CO2 e / k/Wh in future years. *Financial Years October 2007-September 2008 until October 2011 – September 2012. **Data values sourced from State of Jersey Website http://www.gov.je/SiteCollectionDocuments/Planning%20and%20building/TD%20Jersey%20SAPv1-11%20January%202011%20rev%20spt.20130923%20mm.xls Please visit the below sites to find out more about Green House Gases. The Eco-Active guide to climate change http://gov.je/Environment/GenerateEnergy/Pages/TurningPointGuideToClimateChange.aspx The Department of Energy and Climate Change https://www.gov.uk/government/topics/climate-change Emissions Monitoring Emissions testing, known as Stack Testing in the industry, is carried by independent accredited contractors who work to National, International and other recognised standards when sampling the air ensuring they meet the requirements of: British Standards MCERT which is the UK Environmental Agency's Monitoring Certification Scheme http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/business/regulation/31829.aspx United Sates Environmental Protection Agency Methods and other European Standards. The data is interpreted in-house and with experts to ensure that our engines and other plant are running efficiently. We carry out monitoring on all our plant, the frequency depends on whether we have carried out any major modification to the plant. JE is currently in discussion with the Environment Protection Department and also Environmental Health over suitable emission limits for our plant. There is currently European Union discussion over suitable emissions limit for large combustion plants and JE will endeavor to meet these standards. If you have any questions on the Environment or the above please contact Chris Bester, Environmental Engineer by e-mail cbester@jec.co.uk or by phone on 01534 505366. Join our mailing list Sign up for energy advice, special offers and more. Subscribe now Twitter Loading tweet Follow us on Twitter LinkedIn Connect with us on LinkedIn, share ideas and discover opportunities. Connect now Latest News 01/05/15 New substation proves no obstacle to 'Urban in the Park' racers The high speed thrills of mountain biking return to Westmount Gardens this Sund... Read more news Roadworks We are constantly working on our distribution network. 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