Energy Footprint Tool
Work out your church's carbon footprint to help care for God's creation
Energy Footprint Tool
Work out your church's carbon footprint to help care for God's creation
The Church of England’s Energy Footprint Tool is now open for churches to enter fuel and power use from 2025. Completing the EFT is a straightforward but important step in caring for God’s creation and supports the Church of England’s commitment to becoming Net Zero Carbon by 2030.
The data collected from the tool will help you better understand your churches overall energy use, making it easier to priortise the most effective carbon reduction actions. Furthermore, completing the Energy Footprint Tool (along with being registered for eco church) is a requirement for accessing this years national grant funding.
Why your contribution matters
The Net Zero Carbon Project Officer with the Diocese of Chester says; "The energy footprint tool (EFT) is crucial to the Church of England commitment to Net Zero by 2030. The data you provide helps the national church understand the scale of the current energy usage of all our buildings. The national route map for Net Zero Carbon required all diocese to have a 95% completion rate for EFT. We managed to reach 88%, so let’s build on that together”
The EFT helps Chester Diocese assess which churches need the most help with decarbonisation and assists in estimating the financial cost of carrying out the work needed to take the diocese to Net Zero by 2030. Most importantly, it supports parishes by providing the information needed to plan their own Net Zero action plans, access advice on heating and lighting through the DAC and apply for national Net Zero funding.
We recognise that parishes have many responsibilities, and that volunteers are often over burdened by form filling. We really do value your time and effort in this exercise, we are caring for God’s creation together, your contribution is much appreciated.
The system is open until 30 June 2026, and you can find it on the online Parish Returns system.
More information is available on the Church of England Energy Footprint Tool pag
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