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The Generic Wind Project
by Worldwide
Our current Carbon Credits project is the Generic Wind Project in China, which is crucial to avoid catastrophic consequences caused by carbon emissions. Windfarms replace energy derived from fossil fuels, whilst limiting local air pollution and creates longterm job opportunities for contractors, suppliers and residents in the area.
The aim of the project is to reduce longterm harmful air quality conditions.
Benefits:
Improves China’s carbon emissions, which ultimately affects the world’s emissions.
It’s a clean fuel source and is cost-effective.
Promotes renewable wind energy technology.
Progresses community health and local economy.
Why are the projects chosen all overseas rather than in Australia?
One of the key standards for Carbon Offsets is that the carbon savings are ‘Environmentally Additional’. A knock-on effect of this is that since Australia ratified the Kyoto Protocol in late 2007, the carbon savings in Australia are now already accounted for in our Governments mandatory reduction targets, and therefore carbon savings in Australia no longer qualify as being environmentally additional. Carbon Offsets must meet all criteria in order to become certified under the NoCO2 Program.
How can we be assured as to the legitimacy of the Carbon Offsets?
All carbon offsets used by Worldwide are tested to meet the Australian Federal Government National Carbon Offset Standard. Further to this, the Carbon Reduction Institute tests carbon offset projects against 5 key criteria. These are Financially Additional, Environmentally Additional, Permanence, No Leakage, and Validated and Verified Savings.
How does Worldwide know how much to offset by?
Every Worldwide Centre that holds a current NoC02 Accreditation has been through a full carbon audit process. This means every Worldwide operation has had its carbon footprint measured, including all GHG emissions that the business is responsible for. Each year each site is reaudited, so the correct number of carbon offsets can be purchased and retired to comply with the NoCO2 claim.
Benefits:
Solar Power
99KW Solar Photovoltaic System
Through the Federal Government’s Clean Technology Investment Program initiative, for Cleaner Energy Printing, The Worldwide Production Hub received a $147,144 grant towards the cost of a $380,557 solar farm.
A 99kW solar photovoltaic system was installed by Solargain PV Pty Ltd in August 2013.
The system comprises of 396 Suntech Solar panels – 60kW of these are ground mounted and 39kW are roof mounted.
Seven SMA inverters undertake power conversion and the system has a state-of-the-art control system and live monitoring equipment.
Benefits:
Solar farming is beneficial to the environment. The sun is a clean, renewable source of energy that has very few negative effects.
Creating more solar energy for release into the power grid reduces the amount of energy from non-renewable sources.
Solar farms generate clean, green electricity all day - every day.
