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The Environment Agency have now written to all CRC participants clarifying that the CRC League Table is to be retained, and this is to be welcomed. This will help to reinforce the benefits of investing in AMR installation and certification schemes.
It doesn’t look like there will be other changes to Phase 1 of the scheme and this is all to the good: the air of uncertainty created by recent announcements has not helped customers to get geared up for compliance. However there is still time to address changes for CRC Phase 2 as the footprint recording year for Phase 2 starts in April 2011, and this is an opportunity to address at least one area of over-complexity: the relationship between CCAs (Climate Change Agreements) and the CRC scheme.
TEAM, the UK’s leading energy management solutions provider announced today that the UK Public Sector could be responsible for energy oversights amounting to a staggering £147 million.
TEAM, the largest outsourced Energy Bureau Service provider in the UK, identified in a recent survey of nearly 200,000 utility bills that billing errors are costing organisations hundreds of thousands of pounds a year. 
The Survey found that on average, companies can recover 3.5% of their utility costs simply by checking and scrutinising their bills. TEAM’s Managing Director, Paul Martin, commented:
“If we take just the public sector with an estimated utility bill of between £3.8 and £4.2 billion, a 3.5% saving could take around £147 million off the public sector deficit. That amounts to around 3,000 public sector jobs”.
He went on to say:
“The public and private sectors could be throwing millions of pounds down the drain by not checking utility bills properly. Utility bills are a rich source of information but are complex and difficult to understand for most organisations. The first place to look for energy cost savings is the bills. Not only can organisations benefit from reducing ongoing costs, but they could also find a nice windfall from historical overcharging.”
The survey identified that the worst culprits were the gas companies where 6.0% recoveries could be made then followed by water at 4.1% and electricity at 2.8%.
Viki Thurgood, TEAM Bureau Services Manager said:
“Consumers in general have been confused by energy companies’ billing and the numerous tariffs. Many of them are totally unaware of the saving that companies like ours can make for them. A typical London Local Authority for instance could save £413,000 per year, and in times like today, this can make a real difference to the bottom line.”
The survey article and results can be downloaded at www.teamenergy.com/2010/10/28/utility-billing-survey
Councils have condemned changes to the Carbon Reduction Commitment energy efficiency scheme announced in last week’s Comprehensive Spending Review, which could land them with tax bills of up to £1m a year.
The CRC system, which involves public sector bodies and large businesses, is to be redesigned so that the cost to participants of buying carbon allowances will go straight to the Treasury, generating £1bn a year. Previously the scheme was revenue neutral and the cash would have been redistributed among participants, with penalties and rewards depending on performance in cutting emissions.
According to estimates from the Local Government Information Unit, the change could cost unitary authorities £1m a year, and a metropolitan council £600,000 in 2012 – and the sums will go up annually.
Treasury forecasts show that the measure is expected to bring in £715m in the first year, when CRC participants will be charged £12 for every tonne of CO2 they emit. In 2013/14, the allowances will rise to £16 per tonne, bringing in £1.02bn.
According to the CSR document, revenues generated by the carbon scheme will be used ‘to support the public finances, including spending on the environment’. It is not yet clear whether the total number of allowances available in a year will be capped.
Russell Reefer, environment policy consultant at the Local Government Association, told Public Finance the move was a ‘disturbing U-turn’ that would make it harder for councils to invest in carbon-cutting measures.
He added that it would take money away from local authorities, at a time when Whitehall grants are projected to fall by 26% over four years.
‘The government is expecting £1bn a year to be used to support the public finances, but a significant proportion will actually come from the public sector,’ Reefer pointed out.
He added that the changes would give a greater incentive to reduce energy consumption, and welcomed pledges from the Department for Energy and Climate Change to simplify the system and remove unnecessary bureaucracy.
Ian Mulheirn, director of the Social Market Foundation, said the changes had reduced uncertainty in the cost of emissions – but had also removed the potential for high-fliers to make money.
The British Standards Institution (BSI) has announced that world leading air filtration manufacturer, Camfil Farr, has become the first company to join its recently launched Kitemark scheme for Energy Reduction Verification (ERV). The scheme independently verifies and certifies those organisations that achieve a reduction in carbon emissions through lower energy use.
The British Standards Institution (BSI) has announced that world leading air filtration manufacturer, Camfil Farr, has become the first company to join its recently launched Kitemark scheme for Energy Reduction Verification (ERV). The scheme independently verifies and certifies those organisations that achieve a reduction in carbon emissions through lower energy use.
With its UK headquarters in Haslingden, Lancashire, Camfil Farr has a reputation for promoting the efficient use of energy and has demonstrated that air filters directly influence energy consumption within the air handling units which heat, cool and clean the air in air conditioning systems.
The company aims to educate property managers and owners about the substantial benefits of replacing existing filtration assets with low energy air filters. Camfil, the world leader in the production and development of air filters, became the first manufacturing company in the UK to be awarded BSI’s Energy Management Standard BS EN 16001 in July 2010. As a manufacturing and service orientated business, Camfil Farr took the opportunity to examine its own current and future energy usage.
In light of rising and unstable energy costs, increasing legislation and the government’s policy of driving energy consumption reduction, the company wanted to do as much as it could to demonstrate social responsibility while helping its employees, suppliers and customers to learn how to reduce energy and save money.
Bill Wilkinson, Camfil Farr Managing Director commented:
“Although we are not a huge energy consumer, the total savings achieved were remarkable. In the first year (2008) we achieved a saving of over 22% of our total energy bill and in the verification year (2009) a further 14.6%. This represented an annual saving of nearly £200,000 from an energy bill which exceeded £500,000 in 2007.”
Bill Wilkinson continues:
“Camfil have always been energy aware, this awareness is an integral part of our culture and our operations. We have already had a lean management culture”.
When asked what advice he would give to other companies seeking to join the scheme, Wilkinson said: “Simply doing nothing is just not acceptable, but as we found out, by implementing a company-wide Employee Engagement Scheme, every employee contributed to the substantial energy savings that we made”.
With yesterdays deadline for the Carbon reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme now behind us, organisations who did register will be looking forward, aiming for the top spot on the league table and demonstrating just how sustainable they are comapared to their competitors.
However, with the Environment Agency already declaring that they will not embark upon a ‘naming and shaming’ excercise, instead continuing to work with organisations to ensure the CRC Scheme is implemented as effectively as possible, there are likely to be a few false starts on the way to the first round of annualy results.
However, some organisations have embraced the legistlation and are already looking forward to the financial and reputational rewards that the scheme aims to deliver.
The Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme deadline is upon us, with businesses and public sector bodies being required to complete registration with the Environment Agency before the end of the day, or face the risk of fines of up to £45,000.
BusinessGreen have today reported that as of midday yesterday 2,700 organisations had registered as full participants in the scheme, while 11,000 had registered as information declarers.
The figures suggest that several hundred organisations that are meant to participate fully in the scheme are yet to register, while up to 6,000 organisations that should be registered as information declarers could miss the deadline.
However, a spokeswoman for the agency confirmed it was experiencing a “final-week rush” and, based on current call rates to its helpdesk, the watchdog is expecting to have more than 3,000 participants registered by the deadline.
Under the rules of the CRC, organisations that use more than 6,000MWh of electricity a year must register as participants in the scheme and provide annual information on their energy use. Meanwhile, all organisations with a half-hourly electricity meter have to register as an information declarer, confirming they do not use enough energy to qualify for the scheme.
Those organisations that miss the deadline for registering as participants risk an initial fine of £5,000 and additional fines of £500 for each day they fail to register, up to a maximum of £45,000.
Those that fail to declare as information declarers will face smaller fines of £500 for each energy meter they fail to declare.
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Mears has formed a partnership with British Gas aimed at improving the energy efficiency of social housing stock.
The public sector construction and maintenance contractor, in partnership with British Gas, will try to secure funding from the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (CERT) and the Community Energy Savings Programme (CESP) for its social housing client base.
The firm said: “Our aim is to increase Mears’ clients’ share of British Gas’s funding streams, including CERT and CESP, enabling social housing landlords to leverage more value from their capital budgets.”