Native Power:
We’re working along with Leicester’s superior native companies to energy town with photo voltaic vitality… sourced simply down the highway!
We’re so excited to say that Leicester, the stomping floor for 60+ Octopus Power employees, is as soon as once more breaking new enterprise floor. We’ve launched a model new tariff supplying Leicester companies with inexpensive, 100% renewable electrical energy from a photo voltaic farm just some miles from town centre. Dubbed Leicester Enterprise Energy, this new tariff will help the native economic system in addition to serving to these companies minimise their environmental impression.
We completely love Leicester. Simply six months in the past, we branched out from our workplace in London’s Soho and lower the ribbon on our second dwelling, a model new workplace in Leicester’s City Sq. (now inhabited by a hefty 60-strong crew!) Since then, we’ve been so completely happy watching town’s entrepreneurialism thrive, benefiting from the wealth of expertise that the realm attracts because of the close by universities, in addition to the collaborative efforts of the council and native enterprise group in direction of realising bold enterprise plans.
This hyper-local vitality provide enterprise is one other step within the in depth regeneration story of Leicester and the encircling space.
Power match for a King?
It appears becoming that the King Richard III Customer Centre is the very first enterprise to take up our Leicester Enterprise Energy tariff. The surreal 2012 discovery of Richard III’s grave underneath a Leicester Council automotive park, of all locations, (and subsequent worldwide launch of documentary ‘Richard III: The King within the Automobile Park’) has skyrocketed town’s tourism. In the present day, the legacy of this mad royal story is powered by 100% renewable vitality, from the centre’s 3D video reveals to their academic workshops – concurrently celebrating Leicester’s historical past and serving to to set the imaginative and prescient for a greener future.
Iain Gordon, from Richard III Customer Centre, says: “The King Richard III Customer Centre is delighted to be considered one of Octopus Power’s new companions in Leicester. As a enterprise, we’re all the time in search of new methods to scale back our impression on the setting and with our vitality now coming from renewable sources, this new partnership helps us transfer nearer to that aim.”
And increasingly companies are following swimsuit. Every can be given tailor-made details about the quantity of carbon that has been offset because of their resolution to go inexperienced.
That call can be celebrated past the setting, as a result of for each enterprise that indicators up, Octopus Power will donate £25 to Charity Hyperlink. This cash, in flip, can be greater than matched by different charities and funds, unlocking an extra £125 in help for native individuals in want. The native charity helps susceptible Leicestershire individuals – together with youngsters, the aged and people with severe well being points – by ensuring their primary human wants are met by supplying them with meals, shelter and heat.
The trial in Leicester illustrates the good potential Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have to assist smash the UK’s local weather change targets. For starters, there’s completely shedloads of those SMEs – outlined as fewer than 250 workers, 99% of UK companies are categorised as such. Given how fast and painless going inexperienced is nowadays, it’s clear that native companies can create actual environmental change within the UK by making just some easy selections.
We reckon a key step in direction of encouraging companies to make these environmentally-conscious selections can be offering a approach to truly see the tangible impression they’ve had. By signing as much as Leicester Enterprise Energy, corporations not solely discover out exactly how a lot carbon they’ve saved, however bolster their very own economic system – supporting a neighborhood provider to offer locally-generated vitality, which is able to result in our little workplace rising and rising – in addition to actively offering much-needed support to worthy causes throughout the group. Which implies that when the solar shines on Leicester, native companies know precisely what that sunshine goes in direction of.