About
Fjordkraft AS is one of Norway’s leading suppliers of energy to end-users. Our head office is located in Bergen, and we have a regional office in Sandefjord. Fjordkraft have approximately 330 000 customers, private, municipalities and businesses.
Fjordkraft is proud to be a wholly owned subsidiary company the European leader in renewable energy, Statkraft AS.
Our energy related services include, among others energy trading at Nord pool, energy risk management, cost effective and environmental friendly invoice management. Fjordkraft focus is on innovative, reliable and reasonable priced products. Fjordkraft sees the development of a low carbon and environmental market as a new business opportunities.
We started early a co-operation with Statkraft to deliver climate friendly and documented 100% renewable energy to our customers. We believe strongly in the need to reduce energy consumption and offer our customers an in-house developed, market leading energy portal (in Norwegian only). Energiparaplyen focus is live energy control and follow-up. Fjordkraft also offers UN certified carbon credits.
Climate neutral in 2007
Fjordkraft became climate neutral in November 2007. After purchasing 100% renewable energy for our energy consumption, installing an energy control system reducing our energy demand by 20% and encouraging use of video meetings instead of travel we had a carbon footprint of 150 t/COE. Our carbon footprint analysis included energy consumption, air travel and other related work emissions. As Fjordkraft owns / leases no company cars and recycles paper and IT equipment, these effects were therefore not included in the analysis.
Fjordkraft decided to offset its remaining carbon footprint through a CDM project in Peru. The Santa Rosa CDM project is a bundle of 3 small hydropower plants located in Lima in the Santa Rosa Irrigation area in the Sayán District. The purpose of the project is renewable electricity generation supplied to the national grid. It is important for Fjordkraft that the project also has strict sustainability criteria. The project focuses on employing local labour, cleaning of water for irrigation and facilitating steady access to electricity in an area that suffers from blackouts. Fjordkraft will do an annual carbon footprint analysis based on the calculator developed by the Norwegian Ministry of Environment. We have budgeted for a direct carbon footprint of 120t/COE for 2008.
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Strategy
Our climate neutral strategy is based on four steps inspired by the UN publication “Kick the Habit”: http://www.unep.org/publications/ebooks/kick-the-habit/.
1. Make a choice
It is important for Fjordkraft to embed its desire to become climate neutral with our board of directors. We believe that it is the leadership of a company that needs to decide and follow through on the strategy. This makes the commitment clear in all parts of the organisation.
2. Do a carbon footprint analysis
It is an important pedagogical and awareness exercise to decide on what analysis tool should be used and what kind of data one should include in the carbon footprint analysis. For 2007 and 2008 Fjordkraft chose to include data based on our organisation’s direct impact.
3. Make an effort
Reduce, improve efficiency and offset. Make efforts that can be measured and corrected for continued work.
4. Evaluate, adjust and repeat.
What have we learned? What has worked? What needs to be improved? Being climate neutral is a dynamic and continuous process.
To improve, focus and champion our internal work, Fjordkraft has established three climate contacts. They work with Fjordkraft internally as well as its customers, owners and business partners so that climate neutrality is on their agenda as well.
We believe that the greatest positive climate effect Fjordkraft can have is to influence our 330,000 customers to also become climate neutral. To motivate our customers to make a choice we offer 100% renewable energy to our private customers without extra cost.
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