Freight Transport

Energy consumption from transport is included within the scope of ESOS.

You are only required to include transport where your organisation is supplied with the fuel, not where you procure a transportation service that includes an indirect payment for the fuel consumption (e.g. train or flight ticket includes an indirect payment for the fuel consumed).

The party that is supplied with the energy for use in its business (i.e. within a car, train, aircraft or ship) must account for the consumption in its ESOS Assessment.

You do not need to measure and audit fuel which you are not supplied with and do not use in your business, so if you use contractors to carry out transport activities these operations would be exempt from your ESOS Assessment, but may be part of the contractor’s ESOS Assessment, if they qualify.

For participants operating commercial vehicle fleets (e.g. Heavy Goods Vehicles and vans), fuel data should be captured and collated to establish the amount of energy consumed in transport.