SSE Airtricity Gas NI Limited - Carbon Calculator

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Natural gas is the cleanest-burning fossil fuel and produces 23% less CO2 than gas oil and 34% less CO2 than solid fuel.

Since 1997, SSE Airtricity gas customers have saved over 2.3m tonnes of CO2 from entering our atmosphere.  This equates to taking more than 740,000 cars off the roads of Northern Ireland!

Check out our Carbon Savings Calculator below to see how much you could be saving.

  • Burning 1000 kWhs of Natural Gas will emit 204 kgs CO2
  • Burning 1000 kWhs of oil will emit 265 kgs CO2 Using Gas, that's a saving of 61 kgs of CO2 which is equivalent to taking one car off the road for 0.23 months!!
  • Burning 1000 kWhs of coal will emit 311 kgs CO2 Using Gas, that's a saving of 107 kgs of CO2 which is equivalent to taking one car off the road for 0.40 months!!

SSE Airtricity is a trading name of SSE Airtricity Gas Supply (NI) Limited which is a member of the SSE Group. The Registered Office of SSE Airtricity Gas Supply (NI) Limited is Millennium House, 25 Great Victoria Street, Belfast, BT2 7AQ. Registered in Northern Ireland No. NI032810.

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SSE Airtricity is a trading name of SSE Airtricity Gas Supply (NI) Limited which is a member of the SSE Group. The Registered Office of SSE Airtricity Gas Supply (NI) Limited is Millennium House, 25 Great Victoria Street, Belfast, BT2 7AQ. Registered in Northern Ireland No. NI032810.

View a list of our registered companies

If you smell gas, phone the 24-hour Northern Ireland Gas Emergency Service on 0800 002 001.