• The Utility Rollover Trap

    Posted by Axion on March 18th, 2015

    The Rollover trap – How to avoid Automatic Contract Renewals costing you money

    It has become standard practice now for all energy companies to simply roll over energy contracts when they come to an end into a new fixed term contract. This is what is termed a `rollover’.

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  • ESOS - Financial Criteria

    Posted by Axion on March 18th, 2015

    ESOS - Financial Criteria

    Use your most recently completed financial accounting period and convert the turnover and balance sheet figures into Euros using the Bank of England’s Pounds to Euros spot rate for the 31st of December 2014.

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  • ESOS & other Climate Change Policies

    Posted by Axion on March 11th, 2015

    UK climate change policies include the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC), Climate Change Agreements (CCA), EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) and mandatory company reporting.

    However, the eligibility requirements and scope of energy and emission reporting varies across these schemes and ESOS is different in placing a greater emphasis on the identification of energy saving opportunities.

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  • ESOS - Penalties, Enforcement & Appeals

    Posted by Axion on March 11th, 2015

    The scheme compliance bodies will have the authority to apply civil penalties against an organisation/group found to be required to participate in ESOS and found to be non-compliant with its requirements, and publish information on non-compliance.

    For failure to notify the Scheme Administrator of compliance by the required date and/or failure to provide basic details as part of notification, there will be a fixed penalty and an additional penalty for each day of non-compliance.

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  • Updated ESOS Guidance Published by the EA

    Posted by Axion on February 19th, 2015

    The Environment Agency has published updated ESOS guidance on behalf of the scheme compliance bodies, namely Natural Resources Wales, Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Northern Ireland Environment Agency and Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) Offshore.

    This updated guidance supersedes DECC’s ESOS Guide published in June 2014. Its drafting and formatting reflect the new approach to publishing guidance on GOV.UK. The main scheme rules are summarised in the first 40 pages. Additional information from the previous guide is now in the appendices along with new information on the notification questions.

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  • ESOS - Implementing Energy saving recommendations

    Posted by Axion on February 19th, 2015

    Implementing Energy saving recommendations

    Senior management buy-in is key to establishing a successful energy use reduction programme.

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  • ESOS - Confirming compliance with the Environment Agency

    Posted by Axion on February 19th, 2015

    Confirming compliance with the Environment Agency You will need to submit a formal notification to the Environment Agency on or before the compliance date stating that you have met the requirements of ESOS via an online notification system which will become operational in 2015.

    You will need to include some basic details about your compliance to allow the Environment Agency to follow up and check compliance and, if necessary, undertake enforcement activities.

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