Comments on: UK firms disclosing more on carbon emissions, could do better http://www.greenbang.com/uk-firms-disclosing-more-on-carbon-emissions-could-do-better_12052.html Sustainable Energy Insight Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:18:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rory Tait http://www.greenbang.com/uk-firms-disclosing-more-on-carbon-emissions-could-do-better_12052.html/comment-page-1#comment-9407 Rory Tait Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:45:17 +0000 http://www.greenbang.com/?p=12052#comment-9407 I work with the legal issues surrounding this issue on a daily basis and again it’s unfortunate that there has been a disjunct between an existing ‘carbon reduction’ initiative and the CRCEE. Companies within the CRCEE are deemed to consume ‘grid averaged’ electricity i.e., mainly brown fossil-fuel produced electricity even if they actually purchase low carbon or renewable electricity. It is crazy that the sourcing of renewable energy is not taken into account in the performance league tables which are to be produced at the end of each Scheme year although DECC have sought to appease complainants with the announcement that there will be a separate table produced alongside the performance table showing renewables utilisation – recognition for those who are investing in renewables projects and supplies, but no further financial incentive for so doing. In fact through the CRCEE they are being penalised because they are investing in low or zero carbon technology to reduce their carbon emissions but will be penalised financially under the CRCEE because this cannot be taken into account in relation to their compliance with the CRCEE scheme.

This may well affect renewables development at the smaller end when companies realise that they will be financially worse off for “trying to do the right thing” and many potential projects may well founder.

Rory Tait
Martineau

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]]> By: Nikki Ratcliffe http://www.greenbang.com/uk-firms-disclosing-more-on-carbon-emissions-could-do-better_12052.html/comment-page-1#comment-9320 Nikki Ratcliffe Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:20:16 +0000 http://www.greenbang.com/?p=12052#comment-9320 The upcoming CRC deadline should offer a wake-up call to UK businesses to begin seeing reducing energy consumption an opportunity rather than a risk.

Simple steps can reduce an organisation’s energy consumption by 20 per cent and up to 75 per cent in some organisations, so we’re still surprised that enterprise has been slow to take advantage of the CRC.

I have been working alongside organisations looking to reduce power consumption and carbon emissions attributed to PCs. A simple web-based interface allows
you to accurately measure, manage and reduce carbon footprints, reducing energy consumption by between 25-75%. Typical savings of £25 and a carbon reduction of 0.25 tonnes of CO2 per annum per PC are the result.

There are millions of employees working in small/medium sized-businesses that could also begin reducing their daily power usage.

Nikki Ratcliffe
Redstone Managed Solutions

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