Green Energy & The Environment
Green Energy
Dextra Group are continually striving to source the most innovative, energy efficient and sustainable equipment for its manufacturing processes.
We have embraced green energy in its manufacturing process, further reducing the company’s environmental impact and carbon footprint. Dextra maintains a large solar array on our buildings at the premises in Gillingham, Dorset, enabling the self-generation of renewable energy and we use REGO backed energy sources across our whole estate.
This electricity helps power the whole of our manufacturing site and also charge the company’s fleet of hybrid and electric vehicles. Any excess energy not utilised by us is fed back to the national grid. On good weather days, we can run our facility energy neutral, drawing on our solar energy only.
Wherever possible we encourage our employees to adopt the ‘Cycle to Work’ scheme, walk to work or car share where viable.
Total solar generation in kW/h
Total solar generation in kW/h
Total solar generation in kW/h
Carbon offsets
Despite all of the adopted sustainable innovations some CO₂ will unavoidably be released as the result of its manufacturing and business operations. In 2018 Dextra Group initiated a number of carbon offsetting measures on an estate in Exmoor.
They included changes to existing habitat management and a comprehensive carbon sequestration scheme. Across its 900 acres the estate working with DEFRA, Natural England and other stakeholders, is planting additional trees which absorb CO₂ and create a ‘carbon bank’ at an equivalent rate of 1 tonne of CO₂ per tree over its lifetime.
All calculations are monitored, assessed and verified via an independent specialist consultant. Implementing changes to the management of the land benefits existing habitats whilst creating new ones, results in a thriving, sustainable and diverse estate.
Our ambitious tree and habitat planting programme provides great benefits for biodiversity.
Planned management and planting programmes ensure that these environments not only act as important stores for carbon (as well as continuing to sequester carbon), they are also vitally important to store and clean water and purify the air.
Commitment to the environment
Dextra will continue to operate the business in an ever increasing ecologically responsible manner that minimises risk to our; environment, employees, customers and the wider community. To design and manufacture luminaires that are as energy efficient as possible through continuous internal research and development.
Producing sensors and control systems that further reduce energy consumption via enhanced presence and natural daylight detection. Dextra Group is proud to operate an ISO Integrated Management System. The accreditation confirms that Dextra Group meets the highest of international environmental standards.