Welcome to Green Net Zero

One of the biggest challenges you now face is the decarbonisation of your buildings. This is where Green Net Zero can draw on our years of experience in low carbon technologies, to advise on the most suitable, efficient, and cost-effective solutions to heat, cool, ventilate, light, and control your buildings. We work with our network of skilled and experienced partners to install, maintain, and monitor these solutions, ensuring equipment is working at optimal levels and carbon usage is kept to a minimum.

Part of the Frankland Group of companies, we have a wealth of experience in Mechanical and Electrical replacement and upgrade projects in existing buildings. While new buildings utilise higher efficiency, lower carbon solutions, existing buildings with equipment 15-20 years old are often inefficient and challenging to improve.

Our main area of expertise is mechanical plant upgrades, in particular heating and cooling systems. Most heating systems in UK buildings use high carbon, low efficiency, fossil fuel boilers to provide heating and hot water. We work with the UK’s leading manufacturers of renewable heating products, to offer low carbon alternatives, which offer less dependency on the volatile fossil fuel market, and significant reductions in operating costs and carbon usage. Being technology-agnostic, we can ensure the correct solution for the application in question is provided, giving the best impact to your zero-carbon strategy.

In addition to mechanical system improvements, we work with a number of key partners to help deliver a full net-zero strategy for your buildings. These solutions include low carbon lighting, on-site power generation, vehicle charging, and building energy management systems. Our partners have a wealth of experience in low carbon technologies, working directly with Europe’s leading manufacturers to deliver the best value, ensuring the best return to your project.

We also understand the drive towards reducing carbon can be commercially challenging. All the services we provide can be provided with no upfront costs. These can be funded through the reduction in energy costs, and the amount of carbon to be offset to achieve your net-zero commitments.

Since the start of the industrial revolution, we have been burning fossil fuels. These fuels release greenhouse gasses, and have in turn increased global temperatures year on year. You will have seen the impact this has had with the increased intensity and frequency of storms, fires, and droughts happening all over the world, and right here in the UK.

World governments have joined together to help stop these rising temperatures, and in 2015 pledged to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, by signing the Paris Agreement. If we exceed 1.5°C there is a strong chance our climate will reach its tipping point, with the arctic permafrost melting, releasing even more greenhouse gasses that have been stored over millennia, losing control of our climate forever.

However, there is still hope and a road we can divert to, to avoid an irreversible change to our climate. The UK Government’s Net Zero Strategy, which was launched in October 2021, aims to reduce UK emissions by 78% from 1990 to 2035 (63% relative to 2019) and as a nation, be Net Zero by 2050. This strategy focuses on the sectors that have the biggest potential to make the progress needed to achieve this target;

There are approximately 1.7 million non-domestic buildings in England and Wales. 23% of the UK’s built environment emissions come from these buildings, and of that 23%, around 66% is emitted by heating. Commercial and industrial buildings over 1,000m² contribute to over half of the energy used in non-domestic buildings but account for only 5% of the total stock. These should be of key focus in our drive to decarbonise.

There are plans as part of the government’s Net-Zero Strategy to focus on heat and buildings. Buildings will need to be more energy-efficient, ensuring they require less energy to heat, making running them cheaper, decreasing our reliance on imported energy, and improving fuel cost security. Buildings account for around 17% of all UK greenhouse gas emissions. The idea is to reduce this by 47-62% by 2035.

An ambition stated in the plan is that no new gas boilers will be sold from 2035, meaning lower carbon alternatives such as Heat Pumps or Hydrogen will need to be considered.

Plans for hydrogen as a form of heating to replace the gas network will be decided following trials taking place in 2023 and 2025. Much of the suitability of hydrogen will come down to how it is generated. Grey and Blue hydrogen are generated using natural gas which provides only a small decrease in carbon over 100% natural gas. Green hydrogen however is produced using renewable power and water, and offers a significant carbon reduction, but will require major upgrades to the amount of renewable power being generated.

Heat Pumps are powered using electricity and can be classed as renewable heating solutions. For every 1kW of input power, you can expect to receive around 3kW of heating (depending on water temperatures generated and ambient conditions). This means 2kW is energy from the air around us. If your electricity is from a renewable source, the carbon used in heating your building would decrease dramatically. This technology is proven to work, even in the harshest of climates, if applied correctly. 96% of all new heating systems in Norway were heat pumps in 2021, with average temperatures for January and February around -7°C.

Green Net Zero work with the leading manufacturers of heat pumps in the UK, to provide the most cost-effective, low-carbon solution for your building. Once installed, we’re also here to provide ongoing servicing and maintenance, to ensure your system works as efficiently as the day it was powered up.