Carbon Catcher Energy Reduction

Welcome to Carbon Catcher – we are here to help your business with your carbon reduction commitment.

This is a unique service for the commercial and industrial sectors designed to help your company reduce your carbon footprint, managing down your emissions on an ongoing basis and most importantly your bills.

The Carbon Catcher service is able to offer a bespoke energy reduction consultancy service carefully taking you through every step of the way to reduce your energy consumption. This will include a site visit to carry out a survey, a personalised report specifically for your business, potential funding to help with your project, and lastly installation and after care experience.

Our aim is to ensure a high quality service that you are sure to want to recommend to others with minimum hassle and maximum savings for your business.

CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (Formally known as Carbon Reduction Commitment)

What is the CRC EES?

The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme is a governmental initiative set up the Government in the UK to encourage large corporations to reduce their energy consumption across all aspects of their business operation. The scheme started in April 2010 and is the way forward for our planet if the Government are to achieve energy savings of 34% by year 2020.

Why have the Government introduced this scheme? As mentioned previously, the Government have set strict targets to reach by year 2020. These targets can only be met with compulsory co-operation from large corporations using on average more than 6,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity per year. This equates to
annual energy bills of £500,000 or more. It is these companies that have approached Carbon Catchers the first for energy consultancy and carbon reduction advice for their business.

Though having a compulsory scheme may seem drastic, it in fact will make a really
significant difference as these large companies account for more than 10% of the countries overall energy usage.

Who does the CRC Scheme affect?

The CRC Energy Efficient Scheme is aimed at all public and private sector companies
who have half hourly meters (at least one). If the annual consumption of electricity for the company is over 6,000 MWh (roughly the equivalent to bills of £500,000) for 2008, then the company must automatically become part of this scheme.

How does the scheme work? What are ‘carbon credits’?

The scheme does seem complicated, so we will try our best to explain it as simply as possible. Beginning in 2010, companies which fall under these conditions must begin to monitor and record their energy usage. For all companies spending over £500,000 a year, allowances need to be bought from the Government. These allowances currently stand at £12 per tonne of carbon emitted. Working on rough calculations, a company using 6000MWh is using the equivalent of 3500 tonnes of carbon. At £12 a tonne, it would mean that a company would have to buy £42,000 worth of allowances every year. This is obviously a great catalyst for companies to take action.

Any organisation that uses under 6,000 MWh should (though this is not compulsory) declare their usage but does not need to take further action. We aim to be able to help both larger and smaller companies to reduce their usage focusing on low energy lighting solutions.
The first sale for the Government allowan

ces is to be held in April 2011, but in the following years, the allowances are to be auctioned. Those companies who have made significant differences to their levels of energy usage will need to buy fewer allowances making it significantly cheaper. Companies who have not made significant changes will have to bid for allowances. The number of allowances in the year following 2011 is to be capped, so there is likely to be higher competition for these for companies whose usage is still high.