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2012 is set to be a monumental year for Britain. Of course we are looking forward to the diamond jubilee and the Olympics, but it’s also the year in which we’ll launch the pioneering green deal, unleashing real competitive forces in the energy efficiency market.
Attracting more investment than ever before, the green deal will be the biggest home energy improvement programme of modern times, to tackle our draughty and expensive-to-heat housing stock.
In a world of increasing prices, market volatility and reliance on imports, we simply cannot afford to be wasteful with energy. Our homes are among the most inefficient in Europe and up to 4.1m households live in fuel poverty in England alone.
The time has come for a radical new approach to home energy improvement, moving away from pepper potting individual measures to whole house or property solutions.
On Tuesday we’re launching a YouTube video to explain the massive opportunity the green deal presents to industry and to businesses and people managing their energy bills. The vision is an ambitious and far-reaching one, putting the consumer in charge, with nationwide brands, small local businesses and community organisations competing to deliver the best offers. Competing not just on price but on quality and service and all underpinned by the highest standards.
With free support from ENWORKS, Camfil Farr in Lancashire is achieving annual cost savings of £271,000 and making CO2 savings of 942 tonnes per year, through improved energy and fuel efficiency.
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The property industry will be able to give its views to the government on changes to the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme over the next month.
Today, the Department for Energy and Climate Change has today launched a consultation on proposed changes to the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme. It announced changes to the scheme in last month’s Comprehensive Spending Review, which will simplify the scheme by removing potential bonuses for companies that cut energy use.
Critics say the changes to the scheme have turned it into a “green tax” rather than an incentive scheme. The CRC was introduced in April. CRC participants would, under the proposals, only have to buy the first allowances in the scheme in April 2012, one year after the date proposed initially. The government is also proposing to postpone the second phase of the scheme.
Other amendments include information disclosures, the treatment of Northern Ireland departments and the updating of a number of references in the original CRC Order.
The carbon tax is designed to incentivise large public and private sector organisation to take up cost effective energy efficiency opportunities through the application of reputational and financial drivers. The consultation period is due to close on 17 December.
Source: PropertyWeek.com
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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
Hammonds Furniture is now on course to make big savings by reducing energy usage at its Nuneaton store with expert help from a building energy management system (BEMS) supplied by t-mac Technologies.
Over the last six months, t-mac Technologies Ltd has worked with the furniture specialists, conducting a full site survey and reviewing current energy bills. A t-mac system was installed to first meter and monitor the site’s energy consumption, providing remote access to real-time energy data. Using the online energy analysis software, the team identified energy inefficiencies and areas for improvement to reduce cost, consumption and carbon for the Hammonds store.
Having analysed the data collected from all measurable sources of energy consumption including heating and cooling, lighting and mains electricity, the t-mac team, with Hammonds, used their findings to put a plan in place using t-mac to control energy use. Through t-mac’s online software the control strategy was implemented to cover lighting, heating and cooling equipment to meet the targets and aspirations of Hammonds for improving the quality of their energy management in line with the quality of furniture.
Budget spending cuts have turned CRC environmental carrots into financial sticks, claims on365
Loughborough, October 26, 2010 – Following the government’s Comprehensive Spending Review last week, several cuts and reductions are being put into place and the effects are already being felt across the UK. on365, a specialist in the planning, installing, management and optimisation of physical IT infrastructure and utility services calls for a review of the proposed restructuring of the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC).
When the CRC was initially introduced, it was positioned to the market as an initiative to ensure greener data centre operation and to significantly reduce UK carbon emissions. Originally, from April 2011 results would be published in the CRC league table and these would influence the organisations’ future energy costs and financial reimbursements or fines which would be determined by performance.
The restructured CRC means that the scheme has now become a stealth carbon tax due to government’s decision to direct CRC funds back to the Treasury, instead of being redistributed, as originally planned, to the top performing businesses. It is estimated that revenues from allowance sales totalling £1 billion p.a. by 2014-15 will be used to support public finances rather than going back to scheme participants. However, under the restructuring the burden on businesses will, in the first instance, be slightly reduced by the fact that the first allowance sales for 2011-12 emissions will be pushed to 2012 instead of 2011, giving businesses a deferral of cash flow.
Chris Smith, sales and marketing director at on365, comments that: “I think that CRC now reads ‘Corporate Restraining Charge’. In effect this is now a tax and not an incentive to reduce carbon emissions. Corporate environmental responsibility is now measured in pounds sterling with the carrot to encourage businesses to participate being replaced by a stick.”
About on365
on365.co.uk is a specialist in the planning, installing, management and optimisation of physical IT infrastructure and utility services, from the desktop to server rooms to data centres. Its comprehensive IT support capabilities encompass installation, system testing, network integration, on-site maintenance and audit/review services. It has clients across the UK and EMEA in the financial, telecommunications, utility, transport and leisure sectors.
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…Companies lose potential benefits in which they have invested thousands of pounds…
London – UK, 26th October 2010 – Power Efficiency, the energy procurement and carbon strategy consultancy, has today issued its assessment of the changes to the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme that will be imposed as a result of the Coalition Government’s 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review announced last week, branding them “an unfair u-turn that has turned the scheme into a green tax and removed benefits many businesses will have invested in at a time of hardship.”
John Field, Director of Carbon Management at Power Efficiency stated; “The changes to the CRC Scheme represent an un-signalled U-turn on existing regulations. Companies have invested in actions with enhanced cash benefits that have now disappeared overnight. Examples are accreditation for the Carbon Trust Standard, typically costing £15,000, and installing Automatic Meter Reading which both provided enhanced rates of return under the CRC Scheme. While these actions remain positive and cost effective, it is unfair to companies that the enhanced benefit under the CRC regulations has been lost.”
“The CRC Scheme has become a green tax at 5-10% on companies’ annual energy costs. This will increase the pressure on companies to manage their energy use and carbon emissions downwards. Companies’ budgeting is also affected: instead of planning for a six-month cash-flow, it is now an annual payment.”