You could already know that Monday fifth June is United Nations World Setting Day.
It acquired us asking: what contribution have Octopus Power and our prospects made since we launched barely over a yr in the past?
The greener power Octopus prospects use means 26,900 fewer tonnes of CO₂ have been launched into the environment than if our prospects had been with typical UK power suppliers. That is roughly the identical local weather influence as 140 bushes for each Octopus Power buyer (or over 13 million bushes).¹
We’ve equipped 65GWh of British renewable power – that’s about sufficient to cost 17 million iPhone 6’s, from empty to full, each single day for the final 12 months.²
Talking of supporting British renewable power – right here’s a map of the renewable power producers at present supplying Octopus Power prospects, alongside the 100+ renewable power producers backed via Octopus Investments.
By carbon-offsetting their gasoline use, our Tremendous Inexperienced prospects have prevented deforestation of the Amazon rainforest via our partnership with the Florestal Santa Maria undertaking in Brazil.
Over the previous 5 years this undertaking has protected an space bigger than Liechtenstein within the Amazon rainforest. In addition to placing a cease to logging and deforestation for farming within the space, the undertaking has labored with 15 native communities to develop sustainable forestry jobs, native hearth brigades, and eco-tourism jobs.
Neighborhood leaders supporting the undertaking, from the Democracia, Água Azul, São José do Miriti, Vista Alegre, Jatuarana, Terra Preta do Ramal, Pandegal, Santa Maria, Santa Eva, Terra Preta do Rio Mancoré, Urucury, Mocambo, Boa Esperança, São João, Ponta Grossa, and Kamayuá communities
Lastly, to have a good time World Setting Day, we’re doing yet one more factor. This yr’s theme is connecting folks with nature. So, for each new buyer who joins Octopus Power on World Setting Day – that is Monday, June fifth – we will plant a local broad-leaf tree, proper right here within the UK. And as a memento, we’ll ship every buyer a photograph of their particular person tree.
- Primarily based on an common sequestration of 2kg CO₂ per yr per tree
- Primarily based on 3.8kWh per yr to cost an iPhone 6 from empty to full day-after-day
If you would like a tree planted in your identify, swap to Octopus right this moment
“You may pay £1078 with British Fuel, or £743 with Octopus”
