Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme: Discussing the Opportunity

Richard HipkissCommercial Director, digital energy ltd

Introducing digitalenergy : Stand BO9

Who is ESOS an opportunity for?

Lets take the customer Journey…..

The last day of each compliance phase (“the compliance date‟) is the date by which the participant must have undertaken its ESOS Assessment and notified its compliance to the Environment Agency.

For the first phase, this means that activity to support the ESOS Assessment must have been undertaken between the 6 December 2011 and the 5 December 2015 to be considered compliant.

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ESOS applies to all undertakings that exceed certain qualification thresholds (“large undertakings‟). It also applies to all members of a corporate group which include at least one large undertaking in the UK.

If you are not in scope of ESOS, you are encouraged to still consider undertaking energy audits voluntarily. Energy audits form part of good energy management practice. Audits can help to identify measures that can save energy and cut costs.

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If you have an ISO50001 Energy Management System (certified by an approved certification body) covering all your energy use this shall be sufficient to constitute an ESOS Assessment.

Notification to the Environment Agency of compliance is required

To be compliant, the system must have been certified during the compliance period, and the certification must remain valid at the compliance date.

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Measure your total energy consumption across a 12-month period (“the reference period‟). The scope of ESOS includes energy consumed in:

buildings transport industrial processes

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Once total energy consumption is measured then identify your “areas of significant energy consumption”

Significant energy consumption must account for at least 90% of total energy consumption.

Within a phase, all areas of significant energy consumption must be covered either by an ESOS Energy Audit or by an alternative route to compliance.

The remaining 10% of your total energy consumption does not require audit. This energy use is referred to as de minimis energy used.

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Four distinct types of qualifying assessments and management activity :

ESOS Energy Audits - These may include any energy audit work undertaken during the compliance period under other schemes (such as activity under the Carbon Trust Standard, Logistics Carbon Reduction Scheme and Green Fleet Reviews), provided your Lead Assessor confirms this work meets the minimum standards required for ESOS Energy Audits)

An ISO 50001 certified Energy Management System Display Energy Certificates (DECs) and accompanying advisory reports Green Deal Assessments

MUST cover all of your areas of significant energy consumption in each phase

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ESOS Energy Audits must be carried out by, or overseen/approved by, recognised Lead Assessors (either in-house expert(s) or an external individual)

Other routes to compliance are subject to separate requirements to be considered valid for ESOS purposes – see Section 6 for more details.

Lead Assessors review audits carried out earlier in a compliance phase in order to confirm that these meet the minimum ESOS standards.

Lead Assessor reviews ESOS Assessment as a whole, legal responsibility remains with the organisation to ensure that all areas of significant energy consumption are audited.

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ESOS sets minimum requirements for compliant ESOS Energy Audits.

ESOS Energy Audits must: Use 12 months of energy consumption data, from within a specific

period Use data not used to support ESOS compliance in a previous compliance

period Produce cost-effective recommendations for the area being audited, or

confirm that there is no scope for cost-effective energy efficiency improvement

Be overseen, conducted or reviewed by an ESOS Lead Assessor

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Organisation must notify the ESOS Scheme Administrator that they have completed an ESOS compliant assessment for their organisation.

The notification must be made to the Scheme Administrator on, or before, the compliance date of each phase. For the first phase is the 5th December 2015.

The role of the Lead Assessor

Participants in ESOS must have a Lead Assessor to undertake various roles in relation to their ESOS Assessment. The exception to this is where a participant has an ISO50001 certified Energy Management System.

The Lead Assessor may: oversee the measurement of your total energy consumption identifying areas of significant energy consumption conduct ESOS Energy Audits. approve audits carried out by others.. Or not

Lead Assessors must belong to a register of energy professionals approved by the Environment Agency.

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ESOS Evidence Pack should include: details of the undertakings making up your participant and identification of

the responsible undertaking details of the responsible board-level Director(s) or equivalents that have

taken the lead on signing-off compliance with ESOS. details of your Lead Assessor calculation of your total energy consumption. list of your identified areas of significant energy consumption. details of the routes to compliance used to cover each area of significant

energy consumption. reasons, where applicable, for using less than 12 months of data for the

measurement of total energy consumption details of the audit methodology used in your ESOS Energy Audits reasons, where applicable, for being unable to use verifiable data justification, where applicable, where your auditor does not consider an

energy consumption profile in their audit of an area of significant energy use

Discuss?

Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme: Discussing the Opportunity

Richard HipkissCommercial Director, digital energy ltd