They are acting now, not pushing net zero out into the distant future, and they plan to go even further beyond 2028.
The construction industry has a massive role in addressing the climate crisis and a responsibility to take action. The average house produces around 8.1 tonnes of CO2 annually, with 39,000 tonnes of CO2 produced while a home is being built. Energystore’s products are introduced into over 800 homes every week, so they’re already playing a part in helping reduce those numbers.
Energystore designs and manufactures insulation products based around their EPS bead, energystore superbead®. It has been in production for over 50 years and is currently trusted by a network of over 90 installers. They later introduced energystore TLA®, a UK and Irish Market first, which combines eps beads coated in an innovative additive with cement to create a pourable insulation. This unique poured insulation offers a non-combustible alternative for use in floor and roof construction as a high-strength void former or insulation.
Energystore TLA is batched to customer requirements and poured on-site, removing waste. The product is free-flowing, covering pipes and services in the renovation project, efficiently reducing thermal bridging. The continuous thermal layer without gaps provides enhanced Psi-Values and superior in-life performance.
DEFINING THE SCOPE
Scope 1 Emissions
Greenhouse gas emissions for operations that Energystore can control.
In 2023, Energystore looked at its operations to determine where it could improve to reduce its CO2e. They established that 21% of the emissions created came from their vehicle fleet, and 79% came from fuel sources used on-site during the manufacturing process. It then decided to switch our six manufacturing sites to more sustainable fuel sources.
The efficiency in its manufacturing sites was also examined to see how it could be improved. It invested in new machinery at its sites to improve production efficiency, which would in turn, reduce the amount of energy needed to run.
Scope 2 Emissions
Indirect emissions produced in the operation of the Energystore business, which it can control.
Under Scope 2, it looked at emissions created by its fuel choices and how it could reduce these. It looked at options currently available to it as fuel sources and is in the process of switching all its sites to green electricity, removing oil boilers and switching to green gas.
Scope 3 Emissions
Emissions from the broader supply chain, including suppliers.
To provide low-carbon solutions to its customers to help them with their own net-zero goals, Energystore introduced the energystore+ range, which dramatically reduces embodied carbon, using sustainable biofuel sources during manufacturing. energystore+ is independently assessed and certified by REDcert², Europe’s leading certification scheme for sustainable biofuel sources.
Energystore work with its logistics providers to reduce emissions created during transportation of its raw materials. For the first time in the UK, the delivery of insulation product Neopor® BMB was completed by Italian logistics company FERCAM with vehicles powered by HVO, reducing up to 90% of the CO2 emissions emitted during transportation and throughout the supply chain compared to the use of fossil fuels.
Its current plans and investment of over £ 2 million to our “Emission-less Mission” will see Energystore become net-zero by 2028. Its commitment to this will create benefits for its business but also for its customers when trying to reduce their own operational emissions.
The NHIC wishes to thank WG3 | Carbon and Energy Efficiency members for producing this case study.
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