{"id":94815,"date":"2021-07-01T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/01\/upowr-customers-now-collectively-displacing-1898000-kgs-of-co2-every-year\/"},"modified":"2021-07-01T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T01:28:00","slug":"upowr-customers-now-collectively-displacing-1898000-kgs-of-co2-every-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/01\/upowr-customers-now-collectively-displacing-1898000-kgs-of-co2-every-year\/","title":{"rendered":"UPowr customers now collectively displacing 1,898,000 kgs of CO2 every year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"xn-subheadline\">The Aussie startup chasing ambitious CO2 displacement goal<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SYDNEY<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">July 1, 2021<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Australian cleantech company UPowr today announced that they had surpassed 2000kW install capacity for their residential solar business &#8211; the start-up&#8217;s first major milestone on the road to making more electrified energy assets accessible to Australian homeowners.<\/p>\n<p>UPowr customers are now collectively displacing an estimated +1.89 million kgs of CO2 every year, thanks to their solar power systems.* <\/p>\n<p>This milestone is a major step for UPowr on its mission to accelerate the shift to a world beyond net zero, by transforming the way our homes generate and use energy. <\/p>\n<p>By 2030, UPowr&#8217;s goal is to displace over 7.5 Billion kilograms of CO2 from the atmosphere, by helping 1 million Aussie homeowners install clean energy assets.**<\/p>\n<p>&#034;I&#8217;m really proud of the team&#8217;s effort in hitting the 2mW milestone. A big thank you to our partners who placed their trust in the UPowr business model. We&#8217;re chasing 10mW next, and I can&#8217;t wait to see what this team delivers,&#034; <span class=\"xn-person\">Stu Philpot<\/span>, UPowr Co-Founder and CEO.<\/p>\n<p>The estimated annual CO2 displacement volume, based on UPowr&#8217;s 2000kW install capacity is equivalent to:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>951,558 kgs of coal, burned <\/li>\n<li>808,450 Litres of fuel, consumed <\/li>\n<li>230,877,743 smartphones, charged <\/li>\n<li>4,394 barrels of oil, consumed <\/li>\n<li>229 homes, powered by coal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To learn more about the UPowr mission, visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/upowr.co\/about\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/upowr.co\/about<\/a> &#160;<\/p>\n<p><b>About UPowr:<\/b>&#160;UPowr is an Australian cleantech startup with a mission to help drive electrification and accelerate the global transition to an electrified energy system. <\/p>\n<p>Starting with solar, but soon to deploy an ecosystem of renewable energy assets, UPowr&#8217;s platform enables clean energy to be democratised, distributed, storable and networked across the home, on-site storage and personal transportation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>*CO2 displacement calculated as kW installed x 4 x 365 x 0.65 kg per year. 0.65 kg = average emission intensity of the grid in <span class=\"xn-location\">Australia<\/span>, as at 2021.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>** kW installed = ave system size (8kW) x 1 million households. CO2 displacement calculated using the below formula.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Related Links :<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/upowr.co\/about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aussie startup chasing ambitious CO2 displacement goal SYDNEY, July 1, 2021 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Australian cleantech company UPowr today announced&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}