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Are you ready for ESOS? Complying with ESOS and growing your business
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Are you ready for ESOS?
Complying with ESOS and growing your business
ESOS How could ESOS affect your fleet and your company?
You may have heard of The Governments new compliance legislation, the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS)? If you don’t know what this means for you and your business, then you’re not alone. In a recent survey of UK manufacturers by Vanson Bourne for Versimic, it was revealed a staggering 69% of businesses are unsure what they need to do comply, if anything at all – meaning they could face fines of up to £50,000.
What is ESOS?
Do you need to comply? Your organisation needs to comply if, on the 31st December 2014, it meets the definition of a large undertaking: • You employ 250 staff or more, or • Have an annual turnover greater than £38.9m and an annual balance sheet greater than £33.4m.
The Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) was introduced by the UK Government to meet the requirements of Article 8 of the European Energy Efficiency Directive. It requires large undertakings to carry out energy audits every four years.
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What do you need to do?
• You must measure and report your total input energy use for your Buildings, Industrial Processes and Transport over a continuous 12 month period (overlapping the qualification date of 31 December 2014).
• Identify your areas of significant energy used by your organisation that accounts for at least 90% of your total energy consumption.
• Appoint a Lead Assessor to carry out, oversee or review your energy audits and overall ESOS assessment.
• You must choose one or more routes to compliance that cover all your areas of significant energy consumption :
• ISO 50001 Certification • Display Energy Certificates (DECs) • Green Deal Assessments (GDAs) • ESOS Compliant Energy Audits
Notify the scheme administrator that you have completed your ESOS compliant assessment and store your records of assessment.
Key Requirements
• Determine you are in on the 31 December 2014. • Use 12 months verifiable data. • Analyse your energy consumption and energy efficiency. • Audit 90% of energy activity (energy use or spend). • Identify practicable ways in which you can improve energy efficiency.
• Recommend cost effective ‘energy saving opportunities’. • Identify the estimated cost and benefits of these initiatives. • Use a “lead assessor“ to review assessment. • Get Director sign-‐off (2 Directors if in-‐house assessor used). • Comply and Notify scheme administrator by 5th December 2015 (and every 4 years thereafter).
• Store records of assessment.
Timeline
BUILDINGS INDUSTRIAL PROCESSESS
TRANSPORT
What areas of energy use does ESOS cover?
The Scheme covers three main areas
All energy use in buildings is included in ESOS. Assessors are given discretion as to how many sites they visit.
ESOS assessments should cover all industrial use of energy, including where it is directly produced by an organisation.
Energy consumed for the purposes of transport means energy used by a road going vehicle, a sea going vessel, an aircraft or a
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