MS secures green gas certificates
Vulcan Anaerobic Digestion (AD) plant near Doncaster. Image: courtesy MS
Marks Spencer is getting green gas certificates to slash its carbon footprint.
After a deal announced today it will buy Biomethane Gas Certificates from Future Biogas to counter its emissions by more than 6,400 tonnes.
It should also produce enough energy to heat 15 MS stores all year round.
The biomethane gas is 50% more carbon efficient than average gas supplies, said MS.
It will be produced at the Vulcan Anaerobic Digestion (AD) plant near Doncaster using break crops (non-commercial crops used for soil regeneration) from farms across Yorkshire and the North East.
This brings the retailer one step closer to having 50% of the energy used in MS buildings from certified green biomethane sources by 2020, according to Gio Patellaro, MS Head of Energy Supply Risk.
He said: “Over the past couple of years, MS has worked tirelessly to improve its carbon efficiency and innovate in sustainability. As the first UK retailer to buy biomethane to use in this way, we are blazing a trail in the market place that we hope others will follow.”
