EFFECTIVE SOLUTION FOR CONTROLING CARBON FOOTPRINT
Carbon Footprint is one of the many phrases that have warmed their way in our daily conversations from the climate research papers. As we grew more aware about our own environment, it happened naturally. What it means is the amount of greenhouse gases that are dispersed in our atmosphere through direct or indirect (human) activities.
A carbon footprint helps to identify the waste or inefficiencies within a business in terms of energy and raw material consumption. With energy costs increasing and shortages of water and other natural resources predicted, this information is vital for a business to ensure informed decisions can be made to overcome such adversity.
Carbon foot printing uses data already collected by a business, such as energy bills and travel expense claims and so does not have to be resource expensive. However, it is not just a tick box exercise that improves a business access to this all-important group. As already mentioned, it helps a business identify ways to reduce cost and risk. Also 92% of young employees prefer to work for organisations with green credentials and therefore such companies can attract talented individuals who are more likely to stay longer, reducing recruitment and resource costs. In addition, if a business chooses to publish its carbon footprint, and even better have it verified, it can have a positive impact on its brand awareness.
According to WHO, a carbon footprint is a measure of the impact your activities have on the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) produced through the burning of fossil fuels and is expressed as a weight of CO2 emissions produced in tonnes.
Effects of increasing carbon footprint is a not so subtle a question anymore. We all know how dearly our environment and our society is paying for continued fossil fuel usage. Although, solar energy wasnt new to us, we have wasted decades thinking that the development potential of fossil fuel usage outweighs its dangers. However, the current environment scenario has proven otherwise.
As we have already pointed out that conventional energy usage choices are the primary source of greenhouse gas emissions, simply selecting solar energy can cut down the carbon footprint of a household by half. Every kilowatt of green energy can reduce your carbon footprint by 3,000 pounds annually. So, even a 5KW solar plant can save approximately 15,000 pounds of CO2 every year, making huge contributions in protecting our environment from global warming and related issues.
By installing 170 KW solar plant we are also putting our small efforts towards reducing carbon footprint globally and installing this we are able to reduce carbon footprint by more than 5 Lakhs pounds of CO2 annually.