Zen Zero
The journey to net zero is a marathon, not a sprint
Zen Zero is Zenergi’s market-leading solution which helps organisations to not only define their carbon footprint, but also provides a glidepath to net zero with the relevant expertise and tools, every step of the way.
Zenergi’s three-stage Zen Zero framework, Measure, Prepare, and Deliver, is a proven approach that will deliver sustained benefits across your organisation – from increased profit through strategic energy efficiency programmes, while reducing the risk from rising energy and carbon prices, to assisting the UK nationally to provide security of energy supplies and supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Ensure compliance
Data collection
Create baseline
Stakeholder workshop
Detailed site audits
Identify opportunities
Industry benchmarking
Establish ambition level
Agree net zero target
Carbon roadmap
Launch net zero plan
Engage stakeholders
Commence delivery
Technical support
Regular reporting
Measure
Phase 1
Our Zen Zero partnership typically begins with a customer workshop to familiarise your key stakeholders with our team and net zero. Another key deliverable is to build an initial understanding of your organisation’s objectives, as this is critical to the success of what will follow, ensuring that Zenergi fully understand your business drivers and to begin shaping an overall vision for the programme.
Key stakeholders will be involved in the workshop, where Zenergi will seek to understand any existing management systems, current compliance levels and any targets that may already be in place across the organisation.
The final key deliverable in this stage is to commence the data capture process, allowing Zenergi to understand your carbon footprint in detail and to begin the process of building a credible baseline, utilising the Green House Gas Protocol to categorise any relevant emissions against the internationally recognised standard.
Prepare
Phase 2
During the Prepare phase of the programme, Zenergi will continue with the data collection process, conducting further quality checks on the data provided and working with your teams to either close gaps in the data, by complementing the existing data sets with site audits, or by requesting information from your supply chain, for example. The wealth of data gathered will allow our specialists to identify detailed carbon reduction options. Each one will form part of a net zero glidepath and will contain the necessary detail to establish timeframes, costs, and return on investment.
At this stage, a further workshop will be organised to play back all of Zenergi’s analysis. This will be our opportunity to share our detailed insights and recommendations, all of which will be complemented with industry benchmarking that we’ve prepared to illustrate the ‘art of the possible’ and where you sit relative to your peers. The ultimate aim of this workshop is to identify your organisation’s level of ambition and to define a date for your net zero strategy.
Deliver
Phase 3
It’s finally time to put all of the hard work into action, starting with the launch and stakeholder engagement plan once the net zero strategy has received the necessary approval – and Zenergi’s multidisciplinary team are here to support every step of the way. We fully appreciate that every organisation is unique, and each has its own footprint and different constraints and opportunities. The level of internal capacity, budget, and technical knowledge available will often determine how much support customers require.
Whatever your requirements – large or small – Zenergi can support your organisation. Whether it’s procuring renewable energy contracts, supporting your transition to electric vehicles, securing funding, installing renewable technology across your estate, or simply providing reporting and governance, our multidisciplinary award-winning teams can help. Energy is a fast-evolving industry, so our programme ensures that your net zero roadmap continuously keeps pace by assessing emerging technologies, changes in regulation and trends in the sector to ensure that you meet your energy, carbon and cost saving objectives in the most innovative way.
Case Studies
Starting the net zero journey
A global medical technology company engaged us to help meet its 2030 objective of reducing Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 46% against a baseline of 2019.
Rather than simply switching from natural gas to 100% biogas at a higher cost, we identified opportunities for process changes that would reduce Scope 1 CO2 emissions by 67% while at the same time reducing costs by £34,000 for an investment of £28,000.
Although the purchase of renewable electricity would reduce the market-based Scope 2 CO2 emissions to zero, we recommended process improvements to reduce electricity consumption, thereby reducing annual grid demand by 1,200,000 kWh.
Implementation of the recommended measures will save the company £148,000 per annum (at 2021 prices).
Defining the net zero pathway
A British motorsport and advanced engineering group recognised its environmental responsibilities and had made a voluntary commitment to become net zero, but hadn’t defined a timescale in which to achieve it. The organisation had already secured a 100% renewable electricity contract that had removed 280 tCO2 e from its baseline CO2 footprint.
We evaluated the Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions to ascertain why and where energy is consumed to identify efficiency improvements.
The largest Scope 2 emissions are from equipment with long operation times. Since the supply contract is for 100% renewable electricity, at a marketbased level the emissions are 0 tCCO2e. Although currently discounted from the CO2 footprint, our recommendations would deliver more than £35,000 in annual savings for an investment of just over £200,000, providing a payback period of just over five years.
Supporting the achievement of net zero emissions
A leading equine feed manufacturer engaged us to help achieve net zero Scope 1 and 2 emissions from its sites by 2035. It had already moved to procuring 100% renewable electricity that had reduced its total CO2 emissions by 34% and 113.4 tCO2e.
We established the total emissions from primary activities, and identified measures that had already been taken and others that may yet be taken to achieve the objective.
Our recommendations for reducing CO2 emissions included measures and technology to reduce waste and improve energy efficiency; generation of electricity on site; recovering ‘waste’ heat energy; reducing CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and road vehicles; and carbon offsetting.
Our detailed roadmap to achieving the target, included CO2 and cost savings; and payback periods.
Learn more
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