1. Articles in category: Carbon Reduction Commitment

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    1. Update: Mixed messages in CRC league table highlight schemes 'failings'

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      Update: Mixed messages in CRC league table highlight schemes 'failings'

      The final Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Performance League Table (PLT) has highlighted some of the legislations failings and raised concerns over data accuracy issues. Related articles Manchester United loses premier position in CRC league table Royal College of Music on track towards carbon reduction target Michelin cuts Irish energy bill with Ecotricity wind park David Lloyd Leisure raises the bar in energy saving Center Parcs engages employees in energy efficiency Following a five month delay, the CRC PLT, published today by the Environment Agency, ranks almost 3,000 organisations on their energy efficiency performance for the year 2011/12. Last year's table was the first, and this year's, the second, will be the last, after the Government announced its abolition in last year's Autumn Statement as part of a 'simplification' of the CRC scheme.

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    2. The Uk Crc Scheme And The Data Center Industry

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      Recently, the US energy policy has seen a movement away from the idea of green energy towards a more grounded idea of producing shale oil and shale gas. This is with the view to cut costs of production and bring back manufacturing into USA. Britain is also showing similar policies – all of which is important for the data center industry since it is hugely dependent on energy policy decisions. 

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    3. Why Data Centre Emissions Need To Be Counted Separately

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      Why Data Centre Emissions Need To Be Counted Separately

      The government’s promise to be the “greenest government ever” is in tatters, but those tatters still include a green energy tax, the CRC - which is on life support but still exists. CRC, in its final form, amounts to an extra charge on energy use by organisations above a certain size. The idea is to encourage businesses to operate more efficiently and cut their energy use – thereby cutting the country’s emissions. But data centres are fighting the idea, saying it will make them less competitive than other countries.

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    4. CRC 'stealth tax' damaging attempts to cut carbon

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      CRC 'stealth tax' damaging attempts to cut carbon

      New research being presented to Parliament today (May 17) indicates that attempts to encourage some of the UK's largest organisations to cut carbon have been hit by a change in government policy. 


      A Global Action Plan study carried out among 108 organisations affected by the carbon reduction commitment (CRC) indicates this change in policy has had a detrimental impact on encouraging them to save carbon. 

      The research revealed that 41% of respondents felt the CRC placed a high administrative burden on them with 42% stating that it had caused resources to be moved away from other sustainability initiatives. 

      The performance league table which was meant to drive change has also had little impact with 80% of respondents not changing their approach in response to the publication of the first league table. 

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    5. Debunking the Carbon Reduction Myth

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      Debunking the Carbon Reduction Myth

      It should come as no surprise that reducing energy consumption is currently at the forefront of corporate agendas. Whether you’re a start-up or a multi-national corporation, you’re faced with rising economic pressures to cut your costs and increasingly-stringent environmental regulations that demand the reduction of your carbon footprint. Companies are literally being squeezed from both sides, all while our dependency on technology continues to intensify, with fast-growing “big” volumes of data being produced that need to be transmitted and stored. Organisations need to find some way to reconcile their growing reliance on power-hungry technology with the market, and regulatory forces that are making it more and more expensive and “socially awkward” to be a high-power user.

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    6. DECC Hopes To Slash Cost Of CRC Carbon Tax By 60 Percent

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      DECC Hopes To Slash Cost Of CRC Carbon Tax By 60 Percent

      The CRC carbon tax, which the IT industry fears will increase data centre costs, is to be simplified once again, according to proposals published yesterday which are open to consultation till June. The CRC was put under notice by the Chancellor in his budget speech as too expensive. The Department’s proposals hope to save the tax by cutting the administrative cost by around two-thirds. The CRC imposes a tax on energy use, and rates organisations in a league table of efficiency, as a way to push companies to reduce their greenhouse emissions. Criticised for its complexity, simplification of the CRC has been on the cards for some time and last week’s budget started speculation the tax might be abolished.

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    7. Budget 2012: Goodbye To the CRC Green Tax?

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      Budget 2012: Goodbye To the CRC Green Tax?

      In the last few years, the main tech news story in the annual budget has been the question, how much will the Chancellor do for broadband? As usual, this year’s answer seems to be – for those who see Internet access as this country’s best hope for the future at least – not enough.

      But alongside Osborne’s re-announcement of super-connected tech cities (with the list filled out by a few more names), the Budget included a big hint of a major change that will affect large parts of the IT industry. In amongst the tax-cuts and the changed thresholds, George Osborne dropped a big hint that he could do away with the controversial CRC green tax.

      End of the green line?

      “The Carbon Reduction Commitment is cumbersome, bureaucratic and imposes unnecessary costs on business,” Osborne said.

      That’s a pretty unambiguous statement. Anything that gets damned that way by ...

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    9. CRC Scheme Triggers Rise In Data Centre Energy Management

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      CRC Scheme Triggers Rise In Data Centre Energy Management

      The government’s Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) legislation is apparently responsible for a rise in the use of energy management policies at UK data centres. So said a survey carried out by the organisers of the Data Centre World 2012 conference. It surveyed 6,000 IT decision makers who operate or plan to operate a data centre, as well as third party data centre operators. The researchers found that almost three-quarters (71 percent) of data centres in the UK now have energy management policies in place. CRC Driver The CRC energy efficiency scheme came into force in 2010, and the research showed that at the time the number of data centre operators adopting energy management policies leapt 300 percent when compared to the rate of adoption for each of the previous three years.

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    10. UK government releases first CRC league table

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      UK government releases first CRC league table
      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)
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    12. Organisations given the opportunity to amend inaccurate reports for the Government's CRC scheme with a re-submission deadline extension

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      Organisations given the opportunity to amend inaccurate reports for the Government's CRC scheme with a re-submission deadline extension
      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 ...
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    13. Most Firms Comply With Carbon Reporting Deadline

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      Most Firms Comply With Carbon Reporting Deadline
      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.
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    15. What’s The CBI’s Game With CRC?

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      What’s The CBI’s Game With CRC?
      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.
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    16. Scrap CRC or restore it back to what it was, says CBI

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      Scrap CRC or restore it back to what it was, says CBI
      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 »
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    17. United Kingdom: The CRC

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      United Kingdom: The CRC
      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).
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    18. Over nine months after Government launched CRC Scheme growing number of organisations turn to software solution

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      Over nine months after Government launched CRC Scheme growing number of organisations turn to software solution
      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.
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    19. Uk Crc - global lessons

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      Uk Crc - global lessons
      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.
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    20. Government CRC Scheme To Be Scrapped?

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      Government CRC Scheme To Be Scrapped?
      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.
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    21. Is CRC Vanishing Before Our Eyes?

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      Is CRC Vanishing Before Our Eyes?
      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.
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    22. Local Authorities Embrace CRC Data Management Tool

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      Local Authorities Embrace CRC Data Management Tool
      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.
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    23. UK Carbon Plan Altered to Become 'Green Tax'

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      UK Carbon Plan Altered to Become 'Green Tax'
      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.
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    24. Uk Crc Energy Scheme Becomes A ‘Stealth Tax’

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      Uk Crc Energy Scheme Becomes A ‘Stealth Tax’
      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.
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