Net Zero Journey
Helping you understand your business’ environmental impact and how to achieve emissions reductions.
- Quantify the total environmental impact of your activities
- Identify actionable steps to reach your reduction targets
- Save money by identifying energy efficiency opportunities
- Provide a range of practical trajectories to reach Net Zero
Struggling with creating a practical and achievable plan to reach net zero?
Measuring your impact and delivering a realistic roadmap can be a daunting task. As specialist net zero consultants, we will expertly guide you through your transition to net zero with a clear actionable plan.
Clients, employees, families and the general public, expect businesses to commit to reducing their impact on the environment.
For many prospects and customers, delivering upon your net zero promise is the only way to gain their respect and loyalty.
Optopia’s experienced team of net zero consultants are here to help you reach your demanding goals - on time and with a positive ROI.
Your Net Zero journey with Optopia
Current status
Detailed understanding of the environmental impact of your business operations.
Practical plan
Net zero consultants identify a range of energy efficiency and carbon reduction options.
Reduce emissions
Agree clear trajectories for reaching your environmental goals and net zero
Your Journey to Net Zero
A clear pathway to achieving your carbon reduction goals
Understand Your Drivers & Challenges
We work collaboratively with you to understand your organisation's specific drivers and challenges.
Through a comprehensive GAP analysis, we assess where you are now and where you want to be, exploring the "why" behind your net zero ambitions.
Understanding your future plans is critical—whether you're growing, diversifying, or adopting new technologies, we ensure our strategy aligns with your business trajectory.
Establish Your Baseline
Working closely with your teams and available data, we establish a comprehensive baseline of your current operations, defining clear boundaries and calculating your emissions footprint.
Data quality is paramount. We're experienced in working with organisations at varying levels of data maturity, and we'll help develop robust processes for calculating emissions and improving accuracy over time.
Identify Your Reduction Options
Collaborating with your teams, we develop a comprehensive list of opportunities to reduce your emissions.
We conduct detailed energy and carbon audits to identify and quantify reduction opportunities across your operations.
We can deploy energy monitoring equipment to provide real-time insights into your energy consumption patterns, helping you understand when, where, and how energy is being used—and wasted.
Model Your Future Scenarios
We work with your teams to model multiple potential futures, demonstrating how implementing various reduction opportunities will impact your emissions trajectory and align with your net zero goals.
This is an iterative, collaborative process where we align proposed actions with your business objectives and funding capabilities, ensuring practical and achievable pathways forward.
Create Your Carbon Action Plan
We finalise the agreed reduction and transition options, creating a clear pathway to net zero with SMART objectives tailored to your organisation's timeline and capabilities.
Implementation support is available through our trusted network of delivery partners, ensuring you have the expertise needed to bring your plan to life.
Monitor, Review & Optimise
We help you stay on track through regular monitoring and review of your progress against the action plan, including ongoing revisions to your emissions forecasts.
Through IPMVP (International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol) assessments, we help you accurately measure and verify the savings delivered, ensuring accountability and demonstrating real performance improvements.
Our results
Case study: Reigate & Banstead Borough Council
Optopia’s net zero consultants developed three clear trajectories to transition Reigate & Banstead Borough Council to net zero, along with capital and operational cost profiles. In addition, we identified multiple energy saving opportunities across their building portfolio.
We worked closely with the council’s team to understand their carbon reduction ambitions, limiting factors and data availability.
We collaboratively developed three potential routes to NetZero, with accompanying cost proposals.
This greatly developed their understanding of how they could reduce their carbon emissions and, importantly, immediately reduce their operational costs through simultaneous energy efficiency activities.
Optopia has been great to work with, flexible in their approach, and friendly and supportive whilst remaining professional. Their work has been instrumental in mapping out our path to net zero.
Dan Woodard, Sustainability Project Officer, Reigate & Banstead Borough Council
What’s included?
Our Net Zero Journey service typically includes:
- Working with you to produce a detailed breakdown of your current impact on the planet
- A report identifying multiple energy and carbon reduction opportunities
- Data that quantifies the emission impacts and costs associated with reduction options
- Modelling a number of trajectories with forecast emissions reductions, costs and risks
- Training and support for monitoring your progress against your chosen trajectory
