ARE YOU READY FOR ESOS?
ESOS is upon us and many will be wondering how best to meet the UK’s new energy auditing requirements for next year: whether to use ESOS audits to establish business cases for energy savings options, to establish conformity using ISO50001 or to use a mixed approach to achieve compliance and help develop the best catalyst for action.
Our approach ‘though people’ is different and more effective than others’ as we directly involve and work with your people who are on the ground who contribute ideas and feedback on opportunities – we find it is their local knowledge, expertise and creativity that yields the biggest results. The trick is to create an environmental of trust, ask the right questions and work together to discover opportunities and identify barriers. We welcome doing this within an ISO50001 energy management standard framework.
It starts with initial contact with key stakeholders to set the scope, boundaries, aims and agree the approach. A pre-audit meeting with site personnel is then used to agree roles, responsibilities, objectives and methods. Then we typically spend a day per site speaking to people, listening to needs, reviewing facilities, running sweeps and setting up simple monitored demonstrations, facilitated by our trained engineers.
The analysis and recommendations are reviewed by a consultant to BS EN 16247, the European Standard for energy auditing. We can provide our own ESOS Lead Assessor or support the one in house. Reports highlight realities, document opportunities, recommend the catalyst (strategy) and can include case-studies (with photos) for content to use right away.
ESOS explained
ESOS is a mandatory energy audit scheme for the UK that requires you to 1) Measure your energy use 2) Identify opportunities as cost-effective recommendations and 3) Notify the scheme administrator every four years (first time by 5th December 2015).
Large enterprises must comply – which means businesses or not-for-profit organisations with 250+ employees (or) 50m+ turnover and a 43m+ balance sheet.
This is an obligation placed on all EU countries by the European Energy Efficiency Directive. It is predicted to be worth 196 TWh (equivalent to £19.6bn) to the economy by 2020.
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