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Carbon Calculator

Carbon Calculator

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.

Gas usage (kWh)

Burning 1000 kWh


Natural Gas Emits 204 kgs CO2
Oil Emits 265 kgs CO2

Using Oil, that's a saving of 61 kgs of CO2 which is equivalent to taking one car off the road for 0.23 months!!

Coal Emits 311 kgs CO2

Using Coal, that's a saving of 107 kgs of CO2 which is equivalent to taking one car off the road for 0.40 months!!