According to the Environment Agency only 7000 firms have complied or notified them that they intend to comply by the extended deadline of January 29th. ESOS requires all large Organisations to undertake and energy audit. If ESOS applies to you – contact us today on 0207 148 4517 and we will be able to help.

The Environment Agency have outlined their position on penalties for non-compliance, allowing participant’s more time to complete their audits – contact us today if you need support on your ESOS requirements. The enforcement action position includes: Although there is no extension to the deadline date the Environment Agency have confirmed that providing an organisation has engaged a Lead Assessor and begun the assessment and informed the EA that a late notification will happen by the 5th December then no action will occur until after the 29th January 2016. This effectively does give an extension but this is officially a period of leniency only Giving until 30 June 2016 to achieve ISO 50001 certification as a form of compliance A focus […]

The UK Government has launched its public consultation with a view of simplifying streamlining current overlapping energy efficiency policy schemes. Key considerations are to Scrap the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) – to be replaced with a Climate Change Levy (CCL) alternative Change Climate Change Agreements (CCAs) – there is appreciation of the loss of competitiveness that large users would face, though hints that the CCA categories may be limited Develop a single reporting scheme – a mixture of ESOS & Mandatory Green House Gas (GHG) reporting. This scheme would potentially be rolled out to all ESOS qualifying companies ( i.e. UK large entities). Incentivise energy reduction measures – this might take the form of grants/loans/other financial incentives for implementing (e.g. […]