Enhar is an independent solar PV and smart energy consultancy. Their  team brings certified design engineers, SAA accredited electricians, and over 100 years of combined industry experience to their projects to ensure quality outcomes. Enhar operates with a clear mission: to raise the standard of solar and smart energy projects through excellence in project design, engineering, and quality management.

Highly conscious of the climate challenge, Enhar understands that reducing emissions from electricity generation is key, and its core services are 100% focussed on assisting client renewable generation projects and complimentary battery storage to enable increased renewable generation onto the grid.

The Challenge: Addressing current and past responsibilities

Enhar walks it talk by consuming electricity for its office from an electricity retailer which has demonstrated 100% renewable energy over a 10 year period. Also prioritising low emissions travel including electric vehicles for company travel and undertaking meetings online to reduce travel emissions.

However in the current climate crisis, reducing emissions alone is not enough, either from the broader Australian energy system or from Enhar's own operations. Nor is it currently possible to avoid all emissions when undertaking interstate travel for example. So, reduction of residual emissions is essential and urgent but still leaves part of the climate challenge unaddressed: historic cumulative emissions are creating ongoing global warming and so we also need to remove these excess greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. A key powerful and nature-based way to remove carbon from the atmosphere is through increasing and preserving forests around the world. Forests aborb carbon and provide other environmental benefits. This is the core solution offered by Treecoin: direct support for increasing and preserving forests.

In addition to these climate-logic reasons, Enhar clients also expressed preferences for procuring services from suppliers which have net zero carbon certification.

Enhar therefore chose to obtain transparent carbon certification to fulfil its duty and assure its clients and stakeholders that it is a responsible corporate citizen.

While Enhar has been in operation since 2007, the company formally began its carbon offsetting journey by achieving Climate Active certification in 2022. Enhar was Climate Active certified for 2022 to 2024. From 2024 Enhar decided to move to Treecoin for their carbon token solution because it offered a way to achieve higher environmental impact at a lower cost. The key cost burden with Climate Active was found to be the annual 3rd party auditing and over 50 hours of staff time to complete the complex documentation.

The TreeCoin Solution

Prior to 2022, there was 14 years of historic operations that had not yet been addressed. Determined to take full accountability, Enhar estimated its 2022 carbon emissions dating back to the company's foundation.

To tackle this historical footprint, Enhar estimated its historical emissions to establish a baseline for offsetting. This included an assessment of annual emissions from operational office use and staff transport.

Enhar then utilized the TreeCoin platform to take action. In 2022, the company purchased and retired 320 treecoins representing 320 tonnes of CO2e, to address its historical emissions from 2007 to 2021 inclusive. This  actually exceeded their calculated requirement by 200 tonnes, ensuring a net-positive environmental impact.

Through TreeCoin's model, Enhar directly supported local Australian forest growers. Their investment contributed to reforestation and biodiversity, specifically backing wildlife habitat initiatives like Carbon Landscapes' Gariwerd Project in Victoria, Australia. To reinforce trust and transparency, Enhar’s achievements were independently certified by both Climate Active (2022-2024) and TreeCoin, with proof of retirement made publicly available on their website.

Lasting Impact and Business Growth

This proactive environmental strategy generated benefits across Enhar's business:

• Competitive Advantage: Enhar actively leverages its carbon-neutral certification and TreeCoin partnership in tender documents, client communications, and stakeholder engagement. This provides credentials for Enhar's climate-conscious clientele, who increasingly factor environmental performance into their procurement criteria.

• Brand Awareness: Enhar's carbon-neutral and net-positive status is showcased through its website, enhancing its public profile with clear, credible sustainability messaging.

• Company Culture: By embedding sustainability into its core operations and transparently communicating its journey, Enhar actively fosters a culture of responsibility and pride among its employees.

Setting a New Benchmark

Enhar's collaboration with TreeCoin demonstrates how a transparent approach to carbon management can create long-term value for both a business and the environment. By offsetting its historic and current emissions and going beyond carbon neutral, Enhar sets a powerful benchmark for the renewable energy industry.

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