Environment

Driving Energy Further

Driving Energy Further is Go-Ahead’s industry leading carbon reduction programme, where tough targets, combined with sustained action, is making a real difference to the environment.

We have set a five-year target for reducing our energy use based on a Group wide strategy known as Driving Energy Further. Our target is to deliver a 20% reduction in CO2 emissions per passenger journey and we are pleased to have achieved a 12% reduction so far.

Driving Energy Further will encourage innovation and deliver fresh solutions to the challenge of using fuel more efficiently. It will support our day-to-day efforts to encourage modal shift from the car to bus and rail. Our focus for fuel efficiency this year has been on:

  • Reducing the use of traction electricity used to power our electric train fleets through increasing the number of trains capable of regenerative braking. Traction electricity is responsible for 60% of the Group’s carbon emissions.
  • Bus fuel-efficiency. Our 3,800 buses are responsible for 30% of our carbon emissions. We have continued to train our drivers in fuel efficient driving and introduced engine idle shut-down systems to reduce fuel wastage and minimise emissions.
  • Site energy consumption. Fuel consumption at our depots and stations accounts for 7% of our carbon emissions.
   Our target to reduce CO2 emissions by 20% per passenger by 2015. Progress so far: 12%

Annual Report 2011

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Report 2011