Will UK Retailers Skim the Cream with ESOS?
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) was quick out on the starting blocks with an ambitious plan to cut energy costs by 25% in 5 years. Their ?25-in-5? initiative is chasing a target of ?4.4 billion savings during the duration. Part of this program involves ?cutting a path through a complex and inaccessible policy landscape?. BRC […]
UK Government Updates ESOS Guidelines
Britain?s Environment Agency has produced an update to the ESOS guidelines previously published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change. Fortunately for businesses much of it has remained the same. Hence it is only necessary to highlight the changes here. Participants in joint ventures without a clear majority must assess themselves individually against criteria […]
ESOS What is the Truth?
When the UK administration introduced its ESOS Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme reactions from business people followed a familiar theme. Do nothing it will go away The next Westminster will drop this Another stealth tax. I don’t have time for this Give the problem to admin and tell them to fix it ecovaro decided to share […]
2015 ESOS Guidelines Chapter 2 – Deadlines and Status Changes
The ESOS process is deadline driven and meeting key dates is a non-negotiable. The penalties for not complying / providing false or misleading information are ?50,000 each. Simply not maintaining adequate records could cost you ?5,000. The carrot on the end of the stick is the financial benefits you stand to gain. Qualifying for inclusion […]
Saving Energy Step 2 ? More Practical Ideas
In my previous blog, we wrote about implementing a management system. This boils down to sharing a common vision up and down and across the organisation, measuring progress, and pinning accountability on individuals. This time, we would like to talk about simple things that organisations can do to shrink their carbon footprints. But first let’s talk […]
Saving Energy Step 3 ? Towards a Variable Energy Bill
Do you remember the days when energy was so cheap we paid the bill almost without thinking about it? Things have changed and we have the additional duty of reducing consumption to help save the planet. This is the third article in our mini-series on saving energy. It follows on from the first that explored […]
Saving Energy Step 5 – Bringing it together
We hope you have been enjoying our series of short posts regarding saving energy, so what we use we can sustain. We have tried to make a dry subject interesting. After you read this post please comment, and tell us how it went. We are in the environment together. As the man who wrote ?No […]
What ISO 14001 Status did for Cummins Inc.
Cummins manufactures engines and power generation products, and has been a household name almost since inception in 1919. It sells its products in over 300 countries, through approximately 6,000 dealerships employing 40,000 people. Because its product line runs off fossil fuel it is under steady pressure to display a cleaner carbon footprint. Cummins decided to […]
When Carrefour Pushed the Right Buttons
Retail giant Carrefour based in Boulogne Billancourt, France is big business in anybody?s numbers. Europe?s #1 retailer opened its first store in 1958 near a crossroads (Carrefour means ?crossroad? in French) and has largely not looked back since then. The slogan for the hypermarket chain with more than 1,500 outlets and close to a half […]
Symbion Pharmacy Services? Definition of Responsibility
A ?symbion? is an organism in a symbiotic (i.e. mutually beneficial) relationship with another one. In the case of Australia?s giant Symbion Pharmacy Services, this means supplying and delivering over-counter Chemmart medicines to more than 3,000 hospital and retail pharmacies, while remaining mindful of its carbon footprint. In 1999, the company with the tagline ?life […]
