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Sustainability is creeping up the agenda as businesses look to “future-proof” their assets, one expert has claimed.
Speaking at the Sustainability Now event, Paul King, chief executive at the UK Green Building Council (UK-GBC), said cost-cutting is causing businesses to consider sustainability much more seriously than when “times were good”.
Mr King said companies are looking at the way their assets will be performing in five or ten years time, even if they are not currently seeing a premium on green buildings.
“They can see the way government policy is heading with carbon taxes and other things, so people are thinking about future-proofing their business,” he explained.
The comments come shortly after the release of a report from the Innovation and Growth Team, which suggested small and medium enterprises could benefit from a 40-year programme of work from the government’s low carbon building agenda.
In addition, the report suggested the agenda could also act as a “springboard” for 200,000 new firms.
Source: LowCarbonEconomy
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Tough rules to protect consumers when they insulate their properties are to be brought in as part of legislation to implement the Green Deal, Chris Huhne announced today.
The Green Deal, due to start in 2012, is the Government’s new and radical way of enabling private companies to make energy efficiency available to all at no upfront cost. The work to upgrade the property will be paid back from the saving on energy bills.
Millions of Britain’s properties – whether owned or rented – will be made warmer, cosier and cheaper to run. The Energy Bill, published in Parliament today, sets out for the first time how the Green Deal will work. It will be available for both household and business premises.
Huhne announced today that phase two of the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme would be delayed and that the Government had launched a consultation on the scheme.
“This will create a window for us to engage in a proper dialogue with participants about what we need to do to improve it. We can also reduce the administrative burden on businesses,” Huhne told businesses at a CBI conference on Climate Change today.
A new white paper commissioned by npower urges businesses to act now in order to protect themselves from future energy risks.
Financial, legislative, and reputational risks associated with business usage of energy will be increasing, according to the white paper published this week, which encourages businesses to prepare for these energy risks. The enquiry was commissioned by energy supplier npower and comes from the London School of Economics.
“Our aim in commissioning the white paper was to reveal the risks energy poses to businesses, show how they are likely to change in the future and ultimately, how organisations can manage these risks,” said David Cockshott, head of industrial and commercial markets at npower.
The white paper follows statistics from the latest npower Business Energy Index, which showed that businesses rank energy as posing a greater risk to them than health and safety, or credit and security. They scored energy as six out of 10 in terms of level of risk it poses, in contrast to the highest risk, which was legislation, scoring 6.7 out of 10.
Board-level consideration
To address these concerns over energy, the white paper provides a guide to current energy risks and forecasts how they will progress in the future. It concludes by urging businesses to ensure energy is a board-level consideration and to control their exposure to risk by working in a collaborative manner internally to combine the energy management and procurement processes.
“One of the key areas we help to develop in our work with businesses is the integration of energy management and procurement within the organisation,” said Cockshott. “We are committed to assisting both departments in developing a collaborative strategy to manage energy consumption and purchasing, as both are intertwined and one affects the other.”
The white paper discusses five main risks for energy management: continued upward trend in energy prices, increased volatility in energy prices, new price risks from carbon regulation, reputation risks from carbon regulation, and increasing regulatory and technological complexity.
THE recent Treasury Spending Review announced that the CRC energy efficiency scheme was tobe simplified to reduce the burden on businesses, with the first allowance sales for 2011-12 emissions now taking place in 2012 rather than 2011.
The CRC energy efficiency scheme, formerly known as the carbon reduction commitment, is a mandatory energy saving and carbon emissions reduction scheme for the UK. The scheme is intended to raise awareness of energy consumption in large organisations, especially at a senior level, and to encourage changes in behaviour and infrastructure. It applies principally to large businesses and public sector organisations. The scheme originally required organisations to buy allowances based on their level of electricity use in April 2011. Depending on the performance of the organisation, the money would then be returned with a bonus or penalty in October 2011.
Nicola Tiffen, a partner in Hay & Kilner’s commercial property unit, said: “This delay in the requirement to purchase the allowances until April 2012 is generally good news, although the allowances must still cover emissions from 2011-2012 onwards. There is also a likelihood that participants will have to buy two years’ worth of allowances, some retrospectively for 2011- 2012 and some going forward to cover 2012 – 2013.
Councils have an opportunity to take some quick steps to reduce their tax obligations under the Carbon Reduction Commitment, writes Matt Fulford
Buried in section 2.108 of the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) was a fundamental change to the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), turning what was an incentive into a tax and leaving local authorities with something to think about.
All organisations using more than 6,000MWh per year of electricity will be paying 8-9% of their energy costs in a ‘carbon tax’ to the government by 2012, and contrary to original plans, not getting any of this back. Local authorities will need to take practical measures immediately to reduce carbon emissions, and in particular consider those from their schools.
Our initial calculations suggest that councils will have to find between £150,000 and £300,000 per year from 2012 to pay for this change, with 50-60% of this cost arising from schools’ emissions. However under the new system the cost of carbon can be directly passed on to schools, which was impossible under the complex original scheme. If local authorities were to do this we estimate the cost would be an average of £1,500 for a primary school and £4,500 for a secondary school.
Other changes following the CSR will remove the financial links to the CRC league table and achieving the Carbon Trust Standard, making them solely measures for improving reputations.
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.