Category: Carbon Reduction Commitment

It may no longer apply to carbon credits but the first UK Government CRC energy Efficiency Scheme league table, released yesterday, still has its critics. The biggest accusation has been it does not provide a true indication of how a company’s energy efficiency measures – the table only measures actions taken over the last year, and some have said it penalizes data centers that were designed to be efficient built before this period. In July, DCD blogger Ian Bitterlin, CTO for Ark Continuity, said he thought the league table would fail to drive incentive given there is no longer any monetary value beyond goodwill attached the table (read Bitterlin’s blog post here)

Landmark's Carbon Counter enables organisations to accurately record and report their energy output without the extensive time and resource that this can incur

Landmark's Carbon Counter enables organisations to accurately comply with requirements without the extensive time and resource that the scheme can often incur Organisations which submitted CRC reports in advance of the initial 29th July 2012 deadline have been given until 27th September 2012 to check for inaccuracies and re-submit reports to ensure that any significant known errors or omissions can be corrected Landmark's Carbon Counter software tool provides a safe and accurate repository for data and reduces time and costs associated with recording and reporting to help ensure adherence to CRC deadlines Companies can take advantage of a 1 week free trial of Carbon Counter to help manage their CRC requirements Following the news that organisations which submitted their footprint and annual reports to the Environment Agency as part of the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) ahead of the 29th July 2012 deadline are being given the opportunity to ...

More than 90 percent of firms have met the first reporting deadline for the Carbon Reduction Commitment The controversial Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme’s first reporting deadline has been met by 95 percent of companies, according to figures released yesterday. Of the 4,549 organisations obliged to provide detailed information on their carbon footprint, 4,295 filed their reports before last month’s deadline, the Environment Agency said. This accounts for more than 60 million tonnes of carbon emissions and more than 10 percent of the UK’s total carbon footprint. By charging firms £12 per tonne of CO2 emitted, the scheme is designed to give companies an incentive to reduce their energy consumption. However, it is widely regarded as a stealth tax since the government scrapped the original proposal to recycle the money raised back into the system just weeks after companies signed up.

UK businesses are calling for the government to scrap the its controversial carbon tax scheme The government is facing more ... The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme is a cap and trade scheme, started in April 2010 , which forces large organisations to monitor ...

The UK government doesn’t understand green issues, says Peter Judge. But the self-seeking manipulators at the CBI could be just as bad David Cameron promised that this government would be “the greenest ever”. The only people feeling green now must be those who believed him. Investment in this country’s renewable energy industry has fallen by 70 percent in one year, thanks to this government’s cretinous mishandling of feed-in tariffs. If the administration can mess things up that badly, it is anyone’s guess how stupid its response will be to the current consultation over the CRC energy tax.

Scrap CRC or restore it back to what it was, says CBIGreenwise BusinessWarning that the CRC was "untenable" as carbon tax, the CBI said the Government should get rid of it altogether and introduce a simpler mechanism or return it to back to being a 'revenue recycling' scheme. "We now have a carbon reduction scheme that ...and more »

The uncertainty surrounding the future of the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC) continues. However, amongst this uncertainty there may be an opportunity to make the scheme work better for public sector participants. The CRC was on the drawing board for a long time before finally coming into force last year. Almost as soon as the deadline for registration passed, at the end of September, fundamental changes were announced in the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR).

With the 1st April opening date looming for the submission of footprint and annual reports to the Environment Agency as part of the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), Landmark Information Group is urging companies to ensure they are on target to meet the stringent deadlines. Many companies have already recognised the extensive time and resource needed to collate the vast amounts of data the CRC requires and have turned to products such as Landmark's Carbon Counter to assist.

As the UK data center sector faces the reality of the Carbon Reduction Commitment Scheme (CRC) its experiences are being monitored around the world. A commitment to carbon reduction has been made across all ‘developed’ economies and all of these have substantial data center sectors with growing energy needs. There are obvious local differences in terms of political disposition towards carbon-based legislation and taxation, the maturity of the local data center sector and its perceived importance to the wider economy but the whole history of energy efficiency in data centers has been characterized by knowledge shared between markets. This gives the experience of the UK CRC scheme wider relevance and application.

The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, formerly known as the Carbon Reduction Commitment, may be radically overhauled or even scrapped, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph. Details of the “stealth” tax featured in last October’s Comprehensive Spending Review and is due to hit over 5,000 businesses that have energy bills of more than £500,000 next year. It was hoped that the “green tax” would raise the Treasury over £1 billion per year by 2014/15.

The CRC Energy Efficiency is now a stealthy green tax, but Peter Judge fears it may be so stealthy it will just creep away and vanish. When is a stealth tax not a stealth tax? When it’s a really really stealthy tax… s0 stealthy, in fact, that it creeps off into the night and dies. It may be a bit early to say this is what is happening to the government’s CRC energy efficiency scheme, but it’s showing all the signs of terminally sick legislation, beset with U-turns, postponements, promises and excuses.

Almost half of organisations signed-up to Landmark's Carbon Counter tool are from public sector. Carbon Counter supports public sector in recording and tracking their CRC compliance data. Local authorities and public sector organisations are turning to data management tools to help them get to grips with the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC), according to findings from data management and energy experts Landmark Information Group.

The UK’s Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) is being “reformed” so that the Treasury keeps revenue raised through the carbon pricing scheme, rather than using revenues to offer rebates to companies that reduce their carbon output. The British government is citing a budget deficit as the driving factor in its decision to restructure the program. “Revenue raised from the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme will be used to support the public finances (including spending on the environment), rather than recycled to participants,” the statement said. The UK government will now collect about ₤1 billion per year (US $1.57B) that was initially slated to be recycled to CRC participants.

The coalition government has been accused of imposing a ’stealth tax’, following an announcement in the Spending Review that the Treasury will keep revenues raised through its Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC). The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme is a cap and trade scheme, started in April 2010, which forces large organisations to monitor their emissions and purchase allowances for each tonne of CO2 produced by the energy they use. The more CO2 an organisation is responsible for, the more allowances it has to purchase, so there is a direct incentive for these organisations to reduce their emissions.