CRC simplified to reduce costs to businesses

The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme is to be dramatically simplified to more than halve the administrative costs for participating businesses and public-sector organisations. The reforms will save some £272 million for participants, and the performance league table is to be abolished.

Liz Peace, chief executive of the British Property Federation, comments, ‘The removal of the performance league table is to be welcomed as we believe its metrics were not effective to incentivise improvement. While the league table performed an important function in elevating energy-efficiency decision making to board level, we think that mandatory emissions reporting could perform this function just as well. We also welcome the Government’s current approach to start with listed companies before expanding more widely.’

The scheme is to be simplified from 2013 and its effectiveness reviewed in 2016 to consider if it remains the appropriate policy to meet industrial energy-efficiency and carbon-reduction objectives.

The reforms include reducing the number of fuels that participants have to report against from 29 to two — electricity and gas for heating.

The performance league table is being abolished, but participants’ aggregate energy use and emissions data will still be published.

The overlap with other climate-change legislation will be reduced.

All state-funded schools are being withdrawn from the scheme.

Related links:
Related articles:



modbs tv logo

More refrigerant bans possible, says government

The government could tighten up the rules that restrict the use of global warming refrigerant gases including speeding up phase-out programmes and introducing new bans, according to a spokesman from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).

Baxi research suggests schools strongly support heat decarbonisation

A survey conducted by Baxi of 200 state school estates managers, consultant engineers and M&E contractors has found that while enthusiasm for Net Zero and support for low carbon heating systems in schools is thriving, persistent barriers remain.