Stelrad will be planting trees rather than taking a small energy rebate it accumulates each year due to energy profile smoothing, to offset the implied environmental damage using electricity causes.
Stelrad will be joining the Inspired Energy’s Carbon Sequester Woodland Partnership through Forest Carbon.
Heading up the switch is Mick Swann, compliance and facilities manager at Stelrad’s Mexborough, South Yorkshire headquarters. He said: “Through the auspices of Forest Carbon, we will be planting trees that will ensure that the best natural way of dealing with carbon emissions grows quite literally, and absorbs carbon dioxide to rebalance the quality of the air we all breathe.”
The partners’ projects remove nearly 2.5 million tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere each year and Stelrad planted 324 trees under the scheme in 2020.