Offsetting

We pay a voluntary levy to offset all the carbon dioxide emissions resulting directly from our activities, as well as from the activities of the telecoms providers whose networks we use.

Our view is that, although offsets alone cannot solve the problem of global warming, and while there may on occasions be abuses in the way offsets are marketed, this does not invalidate their use in relation to emissions which we are unable to reduce directly (such as those of our suppliers).

So we have decided to continue to use offsets, while redoubling our efforts to reduce our own emissions where we can.

The levy is paid to Pure - The Clean Planet Trust, which uses the funds to finance projects resulting in a sustainable reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, or in increased fixing of carbon from the atmosphere.

Current Project:

Bundled Wind power Tamilnadu, India

This project involves grouping of 704 wind turbines in Tamilnadu southern India.

• The small wind mill sub project owners, who operate spinning mills, have invested in wind energy generation encouraged by their Association -Tamil Nadu Spinning Mills Association (TASMA).
• The generated wind power is used for meeting their captive needs and the excess is  exported to the grid. All the wind mills are connected to the grid of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB).
• The project activity generates 860 GWh of power using wind energy through wind turbine technology, enabling displacement of thermal energy.
• The novel feature of the project activity of TASMA is that it could bring together, a number of investors with small power requirements (who otherwise would have chosen to draw power from the grid) to invest into wind turbines.
• Significant contributions by the project activity towards sustainable development include a reduction in GHG and an increase in the contribution of renewable energy to the southern grid.

Further details can be found at Pure's website, in the Project Design Document.