Our environment
Our environmental activities go beyond reducing our own business carbon footprint and looks to influence and challenge the behaviour of our people and communities so that we can all play our part towards a more sustainable future.
Our focus is to deliver a cleaner future and want to lead by example by becoming net zero in our own operations by 2038, reducing our impacts on the environment and ensuring we help others to achieve their own net zero carbon ambitions.
As a DNO we are in a unique position in the energy transition and will be responsible for distributing the increased electricity demanded by the move away from fossil fuels and ensuring that low carbon technologies can be efficiently connected to the network.
Our commitments
- Reducing our environmental impact
- Optimising resources & reducing waste
- Enhancing our natural environment
- Supporting colleagues and communities in the transition to net zero
- Driving down our carbon emissions and becoming net zero
Environmental Action Plan
Our Environment Action Plan details our environmental objectives, innovations, and explains how we monitor progress.
Environment Report
The purpose of this report is to provide detail on the progress we have made in the RIIO-ED2 (2023-2028) period in terms of our overall strategic environmental objectives and meeting the environment targets. It also sets out how we performed in our last regulatory period (2015-2023).
Future energy
We are enabling a greener future and helping our colleagues and customers switch to low carbon technologies.
Environment & sustainability advisory panel
As a sustainable business we want to ensure that we are doing everything possible to minimise our impact on our local communities, region and the UK. The Environment & Sustainability advisory panel consists of environment and sustainability experts, or experts in their field who provide advice, guidance and oversight of our sustainability performance, commitment to biodiversity.