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Coalition Consults on Efficiency Plan

Jun 3rd, 2011
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“Green Deal” is a flagship policy to enable property owners and tenants to fund energy efficiency improvements through funding which will be legally associated with their energy meter and repaid out of the cost savings resulting from the installed Green Deal Measures. It is a key element of the Energy Bill currently passing through parliament.

green deal is intended to be open to both domestic and non-domestic properties, and to owner occupied and other forms of tenure.  The Department for energy and climate  change is consulting on various aspects of the policy, including accreditation of Green Deal advisors to advise on measures which could be installed in a property and deliver sufficient energy savings to meet the requirements for the savings to exceed the repayment costs of the plan.

 

it is also working on the details of the measures, which will have to be permanent installations, but it is not yet clear what permanent might mean in this context. A commercial working group is looking at how this might work in a mixed use multi-tenanted commercial property considering who might have to consent and exactly how the repayment arrangements might work in this market.

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New funding for farmers now available

May 27th, 2011
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Farmers in Yorkshire and Humber have a new chance to apply for up to £25,000 funding for more efficient equipment, it was announced today. The funding can be used to buy equipment that will help reduce running costs for farmers, slashing the amount they need to spend on fertiliser and energy.

The list of equipment that can be funded has been expanded, it was also announced. Farmers can now get funding for two new pieces of kit – voltage optimisation units and floating slurry store covers when used as part of a rainwater harvesting installation. These new additions offer further opportunities for farmers to cut their costs. The other equipment that can be funded are heat capture units, heat exchangers, rainwater harvesting, slurry separators and slurry application kit.

In the past, the funding has helped Woolrow Farm, a dairy farm near Huddersfield, purchase a heat capture unit, saving the farm over £2,000 a year in electricity. Fairhead Farm, near Whitby, also received funding, and purchased a trailing shoe to make fertiliser application more efficient. This has saved the farm £10,580 a year in fertiliser costs.

Another example is Jowett House Farm in Cawthorne, near Barnsley, which has trialled a voltage optimisation unit on the dairy farm, and found that it could save around £800 a year in energy costs. Jim Williams, from the farm, said “The voltage optimisation has made a real difference to our energy costs, and is a solution that can help reduce costs from all the electrical equipment across the farm. Installing it was easy, and it requires very little maintenance.”

Farms apply through CO2Sense, the not-for-profit environmental consultancy that helps businesses, including farms, cut their carbon emissions and grow. The funding comes from the Rural Development Programme for England, jointly funded by Defra and the European Union. So far, this funding has helped farmers in Yorkshire and Humber save around £150,000 in energy, fertiliser and raw material costs.

Vicky Wren, Project Manager at CO2Sense, said, “We want to help farmers invest in equipment that will save both money and CO2. The new additions of voltage optimisation and floating slurry store covers, along with the other kit we can support, offer significant savings for farmers. These new, innovative pieces of equipment offer real benefits, and we are keen to help farms from across Yorkshire take advantage of them.”

The deadline for funding is the 27th June, 2011.

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Inaccurate or late CRC returns face fines up to 11 per cent of fuel bills

May 20th, 2011
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Businesses that make inaccurate or tardy returns as part of their Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) reports could face extra costs of up to 11 per cent of the value of their fuel bills, according to Price Waterhouse Coopers.

First submissions under the CRC are due in July. In a new study, the accountancy firm warns that delivering these submissions late, or getting them wrong, could lead to big losses.

The environment Agency can fine participants £5,000 for each late report, plus an additional £500 for every day of delay.

If inaccuracies are discovered this may lead to additional fines to the value of £40 a tonne of carbon dioxide. This can theoretically be equally valid for those who over report emissions as well as those who seek to under report.

One example given by Price Waterhouse Coopers is that of a company spending £20m each year on fuel. making a return that is 10per cent inaccurate could lead to fines of £500m.

The Carbon Reduction commitment no longer offers any opportunity for good performers to receive direct financial rewards. There is though a strong likelihood that, in compensation, goverment will next year no longer require any seperate reporting mechanism under the CRC, other that for process plant related emmissions. Instead, reports prepared to satisfy requirments for Display Energy Certificates will be deemed to suffice for buildings.

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Emissions to be cut by 50% by 2025

May 20th, 2011
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Emissions to be cut by 50% by 2025
A limit on the total amount of greenhouse gases to be emitted by the UK between 2023 to 2027 has been proposed to cut Britain’s emissions by 50% from 1990 levels and highlighting the Government’s commitment to being the greenest government ever.
The proposal, set out by Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne, is in line with advice from the independent Committee on Climate Change. It sets a fourth carbon budget of 1950 MtCO2e for the period that will span from 2023 to 2027, putting the UK on course to cut emissions by at least 80% by 2050. The carbon budget will place the British economy at the leading edge of a new global industrial transformation, and ensure low carbon energy security and decarbonisation is achieved at least cost to the consumer.
The package announced today also includes measures to minimise costs of the low-carbon transition to industries exposed to international competition:
• In line with the Coalition Agreement, the Government will continue to argue for an EU move to a 30% target for 2020, and ambitious action in the 2020s. We will review progress in EU climate negotiations in early 2014. If at that point our domestic commitments place us on a different emissions trajectory than the EU Emissions Trading System trajectory agreed by the EU, we will, as appropriate, revise up our budget to align it with the actual EU trajectory.
• Before the end of the year we will announce a package of measures to reduce the impact of government policy on the cost of electricity for energy intensive industries and to help them adjust to the low-carbon industrial transformation.
The Prime Minister said: “When the coalition came together last year, we said we wanted this to be the greenest government ever. This is the right approach for Britain if we are to combat climate change, secure our energy supplies for the long-term and seize the economic opportunities that green industries hold.”
“In the past twelve months, we have pursued an ambitious green agenda and today, we are announcing the next, historic step. By making this commitment, we will position the UK a leading player in the global low-carbon economy, creating significant new industries and jobs.”
“The transition to a low-carbon economy is necessary, real, and global. By stepping up, showing leadership and competing with the world, the UK can prove that there need not be a tension between green and growth.”
Chris Huhne said: “Today’s announcement will give investors the certainty they need to invest in clean energy. It puts Britain at the leading edge of a new global industrial transformation as well as making good our determination that this will be the greenest government ever.”
“The Coalition Government has set a fourth carbon budget level, in line with the advice from the Committee on Climate Change, that sends a clear signal about our determination to transform Britain permanently into a low carbon economy. By cutting emissions we’re also getting ourselves off the oil hook, making our energy supplies more secure and opening up opportunities for jobs in the new green industries of the future.”
“Through the Green Deal, electricity market reform and the Green Investment Bank we’re already putting in place the tools that will help us meet this ambitious carbon budget. This and every future British Government will have to keep up the pace and put in place the most effective policies to tackle climate change.”
“Under this carbon budget, Britain in 2027 will be a different place and transformed for the better with warmer
homes powered by green energy, many more cars powered by electricity and far less reliance on fossil fuels to drive our economy.”

Under the fourth carbon budget, government will aim to reduce emissions domestically as far as practical and affordable, but also intends to keep open the option of trading in order to retain maximum flexibility and minimise costs in the medium-long term.

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Emtac News

May 6th, 2011
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Emtac take on new member of staff Donna Haigh as Sales Executive to help them with the promotion of  Training and services.  Donna joins the business with many years experiance in sales and a great deal of passion about energy management and how to help businesses save money and reduce their energy consumption.

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Emtac can offer MAS improvement projects again.

May 6th, 2011
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Emtac are able to offer MAS 50% funded improvement projects to Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) under the European rules. SMEs are businesses where the entire enterprise(including other group members) has fewer than 250 employees, a turnover of less than €50million(approx £40m) and a balance sheet of less than €43million(approx £35m).

Funding is only available for a limited time. To take advantage of this opportunity contact Melanie on 01909 564 044

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Building Tenants ’should be required to obtain a DEC’

May 6th, 2011
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The CIBSE Journal reports:-

Occupiers of commercial buildings should be required to obtain an energy certificate, while landlords should produce a landlords energy statement for the base building, according to an industry working group. The proposal comes in a report,  backed by CIBSE, that was due to be published by the UK Green Building Council (UKGB) as the journal went to press.

The report’s recommendations aim to plug potential holes in future plans to extend the mandatory Display Energy Certificate (DEC) to commercial buildings.

Large commercial landlords are in favour of this extension of DEC’s, but they are concerned that a single DEC for a multi- tenanted building will not provide any incentive for individual tenants to reduce their own energy use, according to the UKGBC.

The report says that landlords of multi let commercial buildings bigger than 1000 sq m should be required by law to obtain Landlord energy Statement (LES), which at present is voluntary process for detailing energy use and carbon emissions from offices.

LES’s could be merged with DEC’s to provide explicit information that could be specific for each individual tenant. says the UKGBC.

Its senior technical advisor Anna Surgenor, said: ‘a lack of suitable energy data at present means that many multi-tenanted buildings get a DEC rating of G. Having the means to provide a more accurate, possibly higher rating is a good incentive for energy reduction by landlords and their tenants.’

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Energy Mangement Training, Stage 2

May 6th, 2011
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On the back of  the success of  our half day workshop  aimed at employees challenged with the task of producing and implementing an energy management strategy on behalf of their organisation. We have introduced the second stage of training that looks at different aspects of energy management in more detail.  One session that people have really found interesting was degree day analysis for site heating systems and for inefficiency re product and energy consumption

For full details about this course please contact us on  01909 564 044

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Changes to the CCL relief

Apr 15th, 2011
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As of the 1st April 2011 all customers that previously qualified for 80% CCL relief now qualify for 65%.

HMRC have stated that new declaration forms have to be put in place. PP10 and 11 forms need to be completed and returned to your current supplier  before the 25th April 2011, to ensure that you continue to receive your exemption.  

Please contact us if you have any questions or need any assistance.

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Emtac News

Apr 15th, 2011
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Emtact take on new member of staff Donna Haigh as Sales Executive to help them with the promotion of training and services.  Donna joins the business with many years experience in sales and a great deal of passion about energy management and how to help businesses save money and reduce their energy consumption.

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