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22 organisations have met with Climate Change Minister Greg Barker to sign an agreement with government to work to become the first Green Deal providers.
The Green Deal is the government’s plan to improve the nation’s draughty homes at no upfront cost to the consumer.
The organisations who have signed today’s agreement at DECC include big business, SMEs and a community group. Green Deal providers will be offering energy efficiency packages to consumers when the scheme launches later this year.
The Government will be working with the pioneers to ensure the move from testing into a managed launch in October works seamlessly and provides a good customer experience from day one.
Greg Barker said:
“The signing of this agreement between government and business pioneers represents a watershed moment in the development of the Green Deal.
“The commitment shown today highlights the opportunity organisations see in the Green Deal from community groups, SMEs to big business which only bodes well for the scheme’s future success.
The Green Deal Connections events are coming back to London, giving small and medium enterprises (SMEs) the chance to find out how their businesses can benefit from the Green Deal.
Due to popular demand an extra date has been added to the Green Deal Connections calendar of events. The second date gives organisations interested in becoming Green Deal installers or assessors – who missed the previous roadshows, including the London launch event last month – the chance to find out more about the skills required under the government’s flagship initiative to improve the energy efficiency of UK homes and businesses.
The new session in London on February 21 has, like the rest of the series of Connections events, been organised by the Green Deal Alliance (GDSA), a partnership of three sector skills councils – SummitSkills, Asset Skills and CITB-ConstructionSkills.
The half-day sessions are free and will benefit those currently working in the installation and maintenance of renewable environmental technologies, or organisations who are interested in expanding their business into these areas. They also cover the skills needs for Green Deal energy advisors and building fabric/insulation installers.
QHotels, the group of 21 four-star hotels, has been named as the top hotel group in the first Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) league table, published by the Environment Agency.
It is the second ranked hospitality company after Center Parcs and 30th out of more than 2,000 British listed organisations which have been analysed for their energy consumption and CO2 emissions.
QHotels’ managing director and chair of its corporate and social responsibility steering group, Michael Purtill, said the ranking was a superb recognition of the company’s commitment to energy management.
“As a group, we are very aware of the business benefits and opportunities associated with performance in the area, as the green credentials of venues are increasingly informing the decisions of our leisure customers and conference, meetings and events organisers,” he said.
Waste Recycling Group has been ranked in the top 10% of a carbon-fighting league table.
The firm was placed 140th out of more than 2,000 organisations in the Carbon Reduction Commitment league table.
The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, introduced by the government three years ago, requires qualifying companies to record efforts to tackle carbon emissions.
WRG environment manager Paul Stokes said: “This was a very significant achievement for WRG and it acknowledges the hard work that our carbon reduction team has undertaken since the Energy Efficiency Scheme was introduced in 2008.
“From the start, our focus has been on reducing our energy use and developing initiatives within the business to ensure that we continue to drive down costs.
“The benefit, of course, is two-fold – improved efficiency and profitability for the business, and the reduction in carbon emissions which helps to offset damaging climate change.”
ECO-CONSCIOUS airport bosses are “winging their way to green success” after smashing their goal of reducing the energy they use.
Staff at Newcastle International Airport had been set the target of cutting back the power they use by 2.5% over 12 months.
But when the totals came in it showed they’d more than doubled their target, saving around one million kilowatt hours of electricity – a 6.6% reduction.
Terry Clarke, energy and sustainability project manager at Newcastle Airport, said: “To beat the target we set ourselves by such a large margin is great. As well as the investments we’ve made, we’ve been educating staff about the best ways to conserve energy in their daily routines, and this has been very effective.”
As well as reducing its energy use by a fifteenth, the airport has also cut its carbon footprint by 5% year-on-year, putting it well on the way to achieving its target of a 15% drop compared to it’s 2010 levels by 2015.
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.
It is well documented that approximately 45% of the UK’s carbon emissions come from the built environment, with commercial buildings being responsible for approximately 20%. These emissions come from activities within buildings, travel to and from them and materials used in outfitting, alteration and refurbishment work. However, the sector has historically been profligate in its attitude to energy use. Such energy wastage not only results in unnecessary cost to business, but is fundamentally detrimental to the industry’s efforts to drive down CO2 emissions in line with the government’s ambitious, but necessary, reduction targets.
Given that a significant proportion of the commercial building stock that will exist in 2050 has already been built, improvements cannot come from simply improving the efficiency of new buildings. Substantial carbon reductions are required from the whole sector – every building owner and every occupier of every building has to play a part in achieving the necessary reductions.
In recent years incentives have emerged for businesses to reduce their environmental impacts: the introduction of the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme and Energy Performance Certificates, as well as other regulatory drivers, such as rising landfill taxes and rules on waste separation, are examples of the increasing carbon-focused environmental legislation affecting the operation of buildings. Energy price rises and the growing importance of sustainability and CSR reporting are further drivers for both occupiers and owners.
There are significant cost-saving and carbon-reduction opportunities in most commercial buildings, particularly in terms of how the building is managed. For example, having lights on when they are not needed or leaving air-conditioning running at the weekend when the building is not in use. Many of these opportunities are either behavioural-change or no-cost measures, so the question has to be asked ‘Why don’t people just do it?’ The answer lies in the relationship between owners and occupiers.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has announced a consultation on a delay to the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme. The Department proposes that phase 2 of the scheme, including the qualifying period, will be delayed by two years.
Rob Tanzer, technical support manager for the Chloride AC Power business of Emerson Network Power in the United Kingdom, explains the impact for power consuming businesses. “Major power users such as the biggest data centres have already bought into the need to lower their energy bills for a variety of reasons, including the CRC.”
“There are still sound commercial reasons for all organisations to be installing the most energy efficient equipment available, today rather than tomorrow. For organisations yet to qualify, there’s a significant opportunity at hand. Businesses have breathing space, either to bring emissions below threshold levels or to initiate projects that will cut exposure when the CRC finally hits.”
He concluded: “Nevertheless, the big strategic imperative remains: to save money on ongoing basis by replacing ageing technology and processes – UPS is always a good candidate – with better, more cost efficient ones as electricity prices inevitably increase.”
Source: Electrical Portal
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