ScottishPower has reduced its direct and indirect value chain greenhouse gas footprint in line with climate science, while strengthening our business adaptation and resilience to climate change.
We are already making a difference:
Reduced emissions
Delivering reduction initiatives
Implemented fugitive emissions reduction programmes resulting in 9% reduction between 2019 and 2024
Transitioned 35% of our light vehicle fleet to lower emissions vehicles
Trialled and embedded the use of lower emission fuels
Moved our own energy use to green tariffs
Delivered network loss reduction programmes, saving over 5,000 MWh of losses to date
Improved supply chain emissions data maturity and trialled lower emissions products
Planning for the future, managing risk and seizing opportunities
Building partnerships and working in alliances for climate action
- Delivered a multi-year partnership with WWF UK to accelerate efforts to achieve Net Zero
- COP26 Principal Partner and founding member of the award-winning Scottish Business Climate Collaboration
- Members of the UN Global Compact, Aldersgate Group, UK Corporate Leaders Group and supporters of the Scottish Climate Emergency Response Group
- Signatories to the Glasgow Climate Charter and Edinburgh Climate Compact
Climate Action Targets
Achieve our 2030 near-term 1.5°C science-based emissions reduction target*
100% sustainable light fleet by 2030**
*Validated by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi): Reduce scope 1, 2, and scope 3 GHG emissions from fuel and energy related activities and use of sold products 64% by 2030 from a 2019 base-year See Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Plan – ScottishPower for full details.
**The Company define ‘light fleet’ as cars, small vans and medium vans <3.5 tonnes, and sustainable as ‘electric, hydrogen, plug-in hybrid and hybrid vehicles’. This target does not include SP ENW vehicles.
Read more about the Sustainable Development Strategy – Action 2030.