Work with SHV Energy to lower their CO₂ emissions by 25% by 2025

Our goal is to lower our CO2 emissions per tonne of LPG we distribute by 25% by 2025. In doing this, we search for places where we can implement energy savings and the use of renewable energy. Additionally, we want to improve our carbon impact – the effect of our products or services on the carbon footprint of customers. We’d like to help them lower their emissions, by helping them make the switch from polluting fuels to cleaner solutions.

When we measure our CO2 we’re looking first and foremost at our scope 1 and 2 emissions (from our facilities and vehicles), which are the easiest for us to reduce. In this Open Innovation Challenge this is what we focus on and consider to be ‘our own emissions’. In SHV Energy, we also measure and manage at our scope 3 emissions, but in this challenge these are out of scope. Scope 3 emissions are a consequence of our activities, but occur at sources owned or controlled by another entity. Examples are outsourced operations, consumer usage of our products, employee business travel, and extraction and production processes.

Scope 3 emissions are by far the biggest source of emissions in SHV Energy. Still, we focus on scope 1 and 2 emissions in this challenge because we believe in taking direct responsibility for the operations we undertake, the services we deliver and the resources we use. By effectively lowering our scope 1 and 2 emissions we can reduce our environmental impact and lower operational costs, while boosting employee morale and engagement.

If we consider 8 steps as depicted in the value chain visualisation, we have our own operations in step 3 up until step 7. We don’t have any operations in step 1 Extraction & Production and step 2 Upstream transportation (together upstream operations) and step 8. End use (downstream operations).

Carbon offsetting solutions are excluded from this Open Innovation Challenge, as we believe that effective CO2 reduction should be attributable to changes made directly in our operations, not to unrelated activities such as the purchase of emissions credits.

We look for opportunities to lower our scope 3 emissions by using cleaner ships, negotiating cleaner means of transportation for outsourced operations and increasing the share of sustainable fuels in our product portfolio. More and more customers, particularly business customers, choose us for their energy supplier because we can support their goals around reducing their carbon footprint in an affordable, practical way. As we increase the supply of bioLPG to meet demand and move towards renewable energy, our scope 3 emissions will further increase.