Category: Carbon Reduction Commitment

1. Countries in the News

   (6 articles) Europe

   (4 articles) United Kingdom

2. Organizations in the News

   (16 articles) Carbon Reduction Commitment

   (9 articles) CRC

   (3 articles) Decc

   (3 articles) Carbon Trust

   (2 articles) IBM

   (2 articles) The Green Grid

   (2 articles) Gartner

   (2 articles) Microsoft

   (1 articles) CA

   (1 articles) Bell Labs

3. People in the News

   (2 articles) Peter Judge

   (1 articles) Carol Wilson

   (1 articles) Tate Cantrell

1. Companies Rush For Automatic Metering Before CRC

   Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Mar 9 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Reduction Commitment

   Some of the UK’s 5,000 largest energy users - required to take part in the government’s Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme - may not find sufficient capacity available to meet automatic meter reading (AMR) requirements. That’s according to energy procurement and carbon strategy consultancy, Power Efficiency, which has today warned that companies may not get the measures to improve their CRC league table performance in place before the close of the first year’s reporting on 31 March 2011.
   

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2. Government Carbon Reduction Commitment 'has loopholes'

   Explore Article computerworlduk.com (Feb 4 2010) Carbon Reduction Commitment , Emissions

   Morse, the IT services company, has called for the government to amend its Carbon Reduction Commitment after identifying “loopholes” that it said could undermine the commitment’s principles. The company claims that the CRC encourages offshoring by not taking into account the power businesses use outside of the UK. The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, developed by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), aims to encourage organisations to reduce their power consumption. Due to begin in April, businesses with a half-hourly electricity usage of more than than 6,000 megawatt-hours will have to buy ‘allowances’ based on the level of usage. ...
   

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3. Morse Identifies Loopholes in CRC Regulations

   Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Feb 2 2010) Carbon Reduction Commitment , Emissions , Wind

   The government's CRC laws are flawed, as companies can simply offshore their data centres and it doesn't take into account power from renewable sources, warns Morse's Brian Murray IT services provider Morse has identified what it believes are a number of serious flaws with the British government's looming CRC (carbon reduction commitment) regulations. The UK's Carbon Reduction Commitment is now called the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme and is due to begin in April 2010. However Morse feels it has the potential to pose a “serious threat to UK businesses and could even have little, no or possibly negative effect on ...
   

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4. Cap and Trade - By Peter Judge

   Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Feb 1 2010) Carbon Reduction Commitment

   There is a law of unintended consequences. Pompously, it says "any intervention in a complex system may or may not have the intended result, but will inevitably create unanticipated and often undesirable outcomes". More simply, it just says: things don't always turn out the way you want. Governments who set up regulations mandating green behaviour are going to have to deal with a lot of unintended consequences this year, as they build complex new systems designed to change behaviour. As I said last week, cap and trade schemes are an attempt to build a system with a financial incentive to ...
   

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5. EA claims CRC will change the look of the high street

   Explore Article edie.net (Jan 28 2010) Carbon Reduction Commitment , Emissions

   An optimistic Environment Agency believes that a piece of legislation that will name and shame businesses that are wasting energy could change the face of our town centres.
   

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6. Green It- show me the measurement - by Peter Judge

   Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jan 25 2010) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Carbon Reduction Commitment

   It won't be a surprise to readers of Green Data Center News that reducing energy use is about making money, but not everyone sees it that way. "Rather than pushing the green agenda down the priority list, a new report [from Frost & Sullivan] has found that the economic downturn may have actually made businesses in the ICT sector pay more attention to the subject, as a way to cut costs," reported my site, eWEEK Europe UK this week. As my daughters might say, well, duh! We've known all along that cutting waste of any kind should make businesses more ...
   

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7. Gartner Data Center 2009 Conference – Day 2 – Green Data Center and Regulation

   Explore Article greenm3.com (Dec 2 2009) Carbon Reduction Commitment , Servers

   Green IT is a hot topic here at the Gartner Data Center Conference with 250 people in John Phelps presentation. More and more enterprises are considering a green data center and what that actually means. This presentation looks at some best practices that can be done today and also looks at key green technologies and processes to consider for the future. Key Issues: What critical forces will drive enterprises to consider green data center strategies during the next five years? What best practices and processes should users follow when creating a green data center? What are some of the new ...
   

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8. Red tape or ready opportunity?

   Explore Article computerworlduk.com (Dec 2 2009) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Carbon Reduction Commitment

   The UK Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), which requires large public and private sector organisations to engage in an emissions trading scheme in order to improve energy efficiency, is a case in point. Research commissioned by SAP in the UK finds that whilst 67% of companies are not yet fully prepared with only 6 months to go, 77% of executives surveyed regard CRC as an opportunity to improve their organisation’s carbon footprint. This paper examines • how UK executives are preparing to meet CRC when it is introduced in 2010; and • what all qualifying companies can do to transform CRC ...
   

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9. Two Thirds Of Enterprises Not Ready For Carbon Accounting

   Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Nov 26 2009) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Carbon Reduction Commitment , Emissions

   With the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) looming, organisations need to get with the programme, or they will be hit with stiff penalties The date for the implementation of the UK's Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) legislation is fast approaching, requiring organisations to purchase allowances for every tonne of CO2 they emit, but the latest research suggests that two thirds of participating organisations are still unprepared. In a survey of 400 British businesses qualifying for the CRC, conducted by SAP, the majority of respondents were found to be unprepared, despite the legislation being less than 130 days away. While 77 percent of ...
   

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10. Business still 'unprepared' for CRC

    Explore Article edie.net (Nov 8 2009) Carbon Reduction Commitment , Emissions , Wind

    New research has revealed the majority of organisations affected by the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) will struggle with the burden created by the scheme. A CRC simulation, run by regional development agency One North East, of what would happen when the legislation is implemented revealed companies would be exposed to a number of issues with the potential of fines. The simulation, focused on the north east of England over a 12 month period, revealed organisations would struggle with 'reporting and verifying' energy use.
    

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11. Green IT Can Save Money, Too

    Explore Article BusinessWeek (Nov 1 2009) Carbon Reduction Commitment , Emissions

    It's no surprise that for some companies green initiatives are dropping down the list of IT priorities. In a recent silicon.com survey, more than a quarter of respondents admitted green IT was off the agenda because of the recession. But many organisations have found the key is to align green goals with broader cost-cutting initiatives—which are definitely in vogue with CIOs and CFOs. In some cases government policies are already giving businesses a shove in the right direction. For example, in July 2008, the UK government informed 10,000 businesses that they could be affected by the Carbon Reduction Commitment—a climate ...
    

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12. How to comply with the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme

    Explore Article computerworlduk.com (Oct 23 2009) Monitoring , Carbon Reduction Commitment , Emissions

    The UK-wide Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme is a new, legally binding carbon cap and trading scheme designed to promote energy efficiency and help reduce carbon emissions. It forms part of the Government’s strategy to reduce UK CO2 emissions by 80% by the year 2050, compared to the 1990 baseline. Organisations with half hourly metered electricity consumption greater than 6,000MWh during 2008 are subject to the CRC and must start preparing for it. This will typically include UK-based parent companies and their UK subsidiaries (all measured as a single entity, unless the subsidiary is of significant size, in which ...
    

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13. Confusion in UK remains over CRC

    Explore Article edie.net (Oct 20 2009) Carbon Footprint , Carbon Reduction Commitment

    Many industry and public sector bodies set to be affected by a new government energy efficiency scheme next year are still confused about the details. edie conducted a poll at the beginning of September and followed it up with another last week to see if perceptions of the Carbon Reduction Commitment and Energy Efficiency (CRC) scheme had altered since DECC announced changes in early October. The September poll, with over 270 respondents, showed an even split, with half of those quizzed confident they knew what was required of them and the other half admitting to significant gaps in their knowledge.
    

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14. EU Supports Green Builders with Energy Efficiency Plan

    Explore Article environmentalleader.com (Oct 13 2009) Carbon Footprint , Carbon Reduction Commitment

    Fifteen million European buildings need to undergo energy-efficient renovations over the next decade to cut energy use, along with the creation of green building programs to re-educate builders and architects to do the job, according to a draft report from the European Commission, reports Reuters. The initiative is expected to generate energy savings equivalent to 37 million tons of oil, estimated [...]
    

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15. CRC under the spotlight

    Explore Article edie.net (Oct 11 2009) Carbon Reduction Commitment , Emissions

    Just hours after Government announced the latest revisions to its Carbon Reduction Commitment and Energy Efficiency scheme, delegates at a major trade show were treated to a presentation outlining the changes and measures organisations should be taking in the run up to its launch. Speaking at the Energy Solutions Expo in London, Steph Hague, climate change technical manager for Enviros, gave a whistle-stop tour of the regulations and how companies and public sector organsiations should be preparing if they want to stay ahead of the game. She looked at what the scheme means for the 20,000 organisations across the UK ...
    

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