Cleaning Up Our Operational Waste: Sympower Goes Carbon Neutral

Sympower was born with the mission to accelerate the energy transition and enable a sustainable world. Rather than relying on fossil-fuel plants, we create a sustainable supply of flexible energy for our power grids. This also helps to prevent further CO₂ emissions by facilitating the integration of more renewable energy resources into the energy system and promoting energy efficiency. 

Even though our services lead to significant CO₂ savings, it does not mean we can ignore the emissions we generate as a company. We find it important to calculate our CO₂ emissions to be aware of their main contributors, decrease them, and remove those emissions that we cannot avoid. 

In 2021, we started our collaboration with Klimate to permanently remove our operational emissions every year, as well as making carbon removal a part of Sympower's journey moving forward. 

While this was a big step for the company, we did not want to stop there. With the support of our entire team, we decided to take our climate action further and remove all of our historical emissions dating back to our foundation year of 2015.

Commenting on this collaborating, CEO & Founder of Sympower, Simon Bushell said:

“Working with Klimate doesn’t just help us reduce our negative impact on the world, it pushes us to critically reflect on our actions. In order to reduce our carbon emissions, we have to know how much we’re emitting and from where these emissions come from. The emissions that we are not able to prevent, we remove. In the end, Klimate is helping us achieve our goal of being a more conscious company, focused on our responsibilities towards the environment and future generations.”

Simon Bushell, CEO & Founder, Sympower

Simon Bager, Co-founder & Chief Impact Officer at Klimate.co, on the importance of carbon removal

Carbon Removal Process

The services offered by Klimate allow companies to align their removal strategy with the Science-Based Targets initiative and are based on the Oxford Offsetting Principles.

Commenting on their services, Co-founder & Chief Impact Officer at Klimate.co, Simon Bager said:

“For us, it is really important to work with a company that is already climate and sustainability aware and wants to make an impact. Sympower was one of our first clients that made a commitment to do this as a whole, as a company, and we see you as a good example of what you can do when you want to take ambitious climate action within the carbon removal space.”

Simon Bager, Co-founder & Chief Impact Officer, Klimate.co

To remove all emissions dating back to the founding of our company, we decided to stick to our initial permanent portfolio. This portfolio invests exclusively in carbon removal methods with a permanence of at least 100 years, with some of the portfolio having a permanency of millennia.

The four removal methods of the permanent portfolio are Biochar (heating waste biomass to turn it into Biochar which, applied to soils, stores carbon for a long time), Bio-Oil (locking carbon up by heating up biomass and then storing it underground), Direct Air Capture (using large fan-like machines to pull CO₂ directly out of the atmosphere), and BECCS (the burning of biomass to create carbon-neutral bioenergy, and capturing the CO₂ produced).

Read more on our carbon removal process here.

Results

Our collaboration with Klimate.co will continue in the coming years to ensure that our future emissions are removed through their services so that we remain a Net Zero company. This title commits us to monitor, reduce and remove the unavoidable parts of our future yearly emissions. Our B Corp status holds us to the highest verified performance, accountability, and transparency standards across social and environmental impact areas. Monitoring and decreasing our operational emissions, while removing the unavoidable ones, is a fundamental part of this.