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Major supermarkets, shops, hospitals, government departments and councils have been ranked according to what they have done to measure energy use.
The Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy (CRC) Efficiency Scheme is the UK’s first mandatory carbon trading scheme aiming to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions.
It is compulsory for all public and private organisations that use over a certain amount of electricity (6,000 MWh – approximately £500,000 per year). These organisations represent around 10% of the UK’s emissions.
Energy regulators top the chart:
There are 22 organisations sharing the top spot, including energy watchdog Ofgem and the Department of Energy and Climate Change. Manchester United football club and Center Parcs also shared the top spot.
Energy companies did less well. Scottish Power was the best-performing major energy company, coming in at position 27. Scottish Power is followed by Eon (101), Npower (127), British Gas parent company Centrica (229), SSE (266) and EDF Energy (330).
More than 90% of UK businesses taking part in the Government’s Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) energy efficiency scheme have submitted their first carbon reports to the Environment Agency.
The CRC scheme requires large energy users in the business and public sector to monitor, record and report on their carbon emissions.
According to the Agency, a total of 4295 reports out of an expected 4549 report were received by the deadline.
The Agency’s figures indicate that 95% of the expected number of footprint reports have been received and 94% of the annual reports.
The carbon emissions reported in the CRC total over 60 million tonnes – equivalent to more than 10% of the UK’s annual CO2 emissions.
The data will now be used by Environment Agency in the next stage of the scheme – determining a league table of participants ranked by their energy efficiency. The Agency says the ranking will be published this autumn.
HERTFORDSHIRE is set to meet targets for reducing its carbon footprint, latest figures show.
The county’s residents reduced carbon emissions by 7.5 per cent between 2005 and 2008 – amounting to 235,000 tonnes of CO2 – according to figures just released by the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
According to Hertfordshire County Council, this puts the county on track to achieve per-capita emissions by 9.1 per cent by the end of 2010.
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.
An independent energy broker says the CRC scheme must continue to focus on its goal of national carbon reduction and not on revenue generation for the Government.
Despite threats of fines, only 2,598 from the expected 5-6,000 large organisations have registered for the CRC in time to meet today’s deadline, and many smaller companies have been unable to submit information and complete the registration process on time.
Leading energy procurement experts at Bergen Energi UK say the lower-than-expected registration figures prove the administrative burden and level of bureaucracy involved of complying with CRC regulations has been too great and too slow a process.
Bergen Energi UK has urged the Government to be as lenient as possible on those companies and work with them to help them register successfully as quickly as possible – without levying potentially crippling penalties.
The Environment Agency is now due to administer fines of £5,000 to businesses for non-registration and £500 per day for further non-compliance.
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.
CRC News is attending Energy Solutions 2010, which is taking at place from 6-7 October at London Olympia.
Produced in Association with the Energy Institute, Energy Solutions is the UK’s fastest growing energy management event having witnessed a record 31% growth last year including a 18% growth in visitors.
Energy Solutions 2010 is set to address the growing requirements of energy management professionals by incorporating new and innovative feature areas. The show will enable attendees to source the latest solutions that will improve the energy efficiency of their current systems, find out about innovative renewable technologies and learn about changes in local legislation and regulation.
If you haven’t already registered for Energy Solutions 2010, you can register for FREE here
CRC NEWS is meeting with a number of Low Energy Consultants and manufacturers of energy saving products, conducting interviews and filming key seminar addresses, a selection of which will be published on the site following the show along with images and company profiles.
If you are a provider of energy saving products and carbon reducing solutions exhibiting at the show and you feel you have relevant information that you think our readers would benefit from, you can email this to our editorial team for consideration.
CRC News is an information portal which is designed to educate people about the Carbon Reduction Commitment – Energy Efficiency Scheme with news, case studies and white papers on all aspects that the scheme encompasses.
If your organisation needs advice about reducing energy and meeting CRC requirements, you can find a number of Low Energy Consultants in our directory
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CRC NEWS attend The Energy Event and discuss Carbon Reduction Commitment challenges and solutions with Lisa Wilkinson of t-mac Technologies Limited
t-mac has multiple faces, it is as an asset management tool; energy monitoring device; second generation building management system; automatic monitoring and targeting device; and a new telematic M2M solution all in one.
The t-mac system has the ability to act as a remote multi-utility metering device, sub-metering tool, building management system or a machine condition monitoring device.
Connecting to meters, sensors, machinery and/or HVAC&R equipment, t-mac provides remote metering, monitoring, control and remote diagnostics, continually detecting and reading information from the equipment it is monitoring and acting as an early warning device for faults, energy inefficiency or incorrect usage.
t-mac’s versatility means that it can provide remote metering, monitoring and controlling applications for almost any industry and is flexible to meet the reporting and management requirements of businesses worldwide.
t-mac can log, report, diagnose, track, manage and meter as well as control equipment usage, operation and conditions plus a building’s energy consumption – anything that can be measured electronically — such as temperature, pressure, volume, energy and flow.
t-mac is the perfect way for you to maintain a complete up-to-date view of the energy that you are using or the performance of your plant.
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