ARE YOU RUNNING OUT OF TIME FOR ESOS?

ERIKS Guide to:Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme

Administered by the Environment Agency, the Energy Saving Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) is a mandatory EU energy assessment scheme for all large UK undertakings. ESOS assessments must be carried out every four years by all qualifying organisations.

These audits of the energy used by large companies in their buildings, industrial processes and transport are used to identify cost-effective energy-saving measures. The latest deadline for notifying The Environment Agency that an organisation is ESOS-compliant is 5th December 2015.

Who carries out ESOS assessments?If you qualify for ESOS and your organisation is not fully covered through ISO 50001 certifi cation, you need to appoint a lead assessor to conduct and/or supervise your energy audits and approve your overall ESOS assessment. Lead assessors can be employees or from external contractors as long as they are registered members of an approved professional body.

As a knowledgeable, experienced and approved assessor, ERIKS can help you carry out and/or review your assessments, compiling the necessary Evidence Pack for submission to The Environment Agency in time for December deadline and avoiding the potential fi nancial penalties that can range between £5,000 and £50,000.

ESOS is the UK’s response to Article 8 of the European Commission’s Energy Effi ciency Directive. Its aim is to cut carbon emissions by requiring large businesses to identify energy reduction measures and as such forms part of the UK’s own drive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050.

Leaner and greenerWith the Government anticipating energy savings for UK companies of approximately £1.6billion, ESOS compliance will encourage larger organisations to fully analyse their energy consumption business-wide and set in motion the necessary actions to save on energy costs year on year as scope for improvement is identifi ed within the four-yearly assessment cycles.

For the majority of companies, the costs of ESOS will represent a fraction of their annual energy spend but ESOS compliance will ensure that energy costs are continually reduced. Not only will this lead to an increase in company profi tability but also to its competitiveness in the marketplace. An additional advantage will be the way in which ESOS provides ongoing action-based deliverables that will support a company’s superior sustainability reporting.

Deadline for Compliance

05|12|2015

ESOS CAN HELP YOU:■ Minimise overall energy

consumption

■ Reduce greenhouse gas emissions

■ Lower overall energy costs

■ Increase profi tability

■ Strengthen competitiveness

■ Improve sustainability reporting

WHAT IS ESOS?HOW WILL ESOS BENEFIT YOUR BUSINESS?

All major UK businesses will be affected by the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) regulations and legislation requires all large undertakings to carry out an energy audit by 5th December 2015 and every four years subsequently. Non-compliance is not an option and can result in fi nancial penalties ranging from £5,000 to £50,000.

A large undertaking is defi ned as any UK company that either:

■ Employs 250 or more people

■ Has an annual turnover of over €50 million (£38,937,777) and an annual balance sheet of over €43 million (£33,486,489)

■ An overseas company with a UK-registered establishment with 250 or more UK employees (paying income tax in the UK)

Unless 100% of your organisation’s energy use is covered by ISO 50001 certifi cation, you will need to appoint a Lead Assessor to check and confi rm that your assessment meets ESOS requirements. Your Lead Assessor can be either someone employed in your business or from an external contractor but must be a member of an approved ESOS lead assessor register.

A Lead Assessor’s role could involve undertaking, advising on or reviewing the following activities:

■ Determining energy use profi les

■ Calculating energy/cost savings of measures identifi ed – life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) or another method like Simple Payback Period (SPP)

■ Identifying energy saving opportunities

■ Presenting audit recommendations

■ Developing a process for how new audits should be done

■ Developing a sampling approach

■ Developing an audit timetable

■ Determining the number of site visits required

■ Pulling together data for an ESOS Evidence Pack

Your Lead Assessor can either carry out your ESOS assessment and audits themselves or check that those done by others who are not registered Lead Assessors fully comply with the ESOS requirements.

UK REGISTERED WITH 250+ EMPLOYEES

ANNUAL TURNOVER OF €50M AND A BALANCE

SHEET EXCEEDING €43MPART OF A GROUP WHICH INCLUDES THAT CRITEREA

CALCULATE YOUR TOTAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION

OVER A 12 MONTH PERIOD

IDENTIFY AREAS OF SIGNIFICANT USE

(90% OF TOTAL SPEND)

APPOINT A LEAD ASSESSOR TO COMPLETE

ENERGY AUDITS

REPORT COMPLIANCE TO ENVIRONMENT AGENCY

PRIOR TO DEADLINE

CHOOSING A LEAD ASSESSOR

DOES IT APPLY TO MY BUSINESS?

APPOINTING A LEAD ASSESSOR

■ Do they have energy auditing experience in the right sector?

■ Are they familiar with technology and processes in your industry?

■ Do they have experience of auditing against particular standards, for example to ISO standards?

■ Can they call upon a network of technical support for guarantee of every saving option?

Under ESOS, energy usage is defi ned as all forms of energy products that are both supplied to and consumed by an organisation including combustible fuels, heat (excluding an organisation’s surplus heat from industrial processes), renewable energy and electricity.

Each qualifying ESOS participant must:

■ Measure its total energy consumption

■ Identify areas of signifi cant energy consumption

■ Consider available routes to compliance

■ Ensure areas of signifi cant energy consumption are covered by a route to compliance

■ Appoint a lead assessor either internally or externally

■ Get one or more board level directors to review the assessment fi ndings

■ Make a notifi cation of ESOS compliance online

IF THE ANSWER IS YES TO ONE OR MORE OF THESE CRITEREA BELOW ESOS APPLIES TO YOU

ERIKS’ know-how and passion for technology are at your disposal - how you want them, where you want them, when you want them. From the simplest level of product supply and logistics to the highest level of long-term strategic planning.

Whether it’s project consultancy, training, management and engineering, we have the expertise you can always call on and always on your own terms. This industry knowledge and in-depth capability have made us fi rst call for so many clients as their Lead Assessor to advise and guide them through ESOS in order to meet the December 2015 deadline.

STEP 1SCOPING REVIEW STEP 2

TRANSPORT REVIEW

STEP 2DATA COLLECTION

STEP 2EFFICIENCY AUDITS

STEP 3DEVELOP & PRESENT

STEP 4ENERGY EFFICIENCY

OPPRORTUNITIES REPORT

ESOS is here and compliance is mandatory.

Act now to avoid backlog and delay as the deadline looms. Benefi t from energy savings and improved profi tability as soon as possible.

Go to www.eriks.co.uk/esos to register or call 0121 508 6200 today and start the ESOS the ERIKS way.

Not only do we know and identify with your industry area but also, thanks to our comprehensive coverage of a broad range of manufacturing and other industrial disciplines, we can apply relevant lessons learned elsewhere to your own particular fi eld.

Sharing the benefi ts of transferable diligence with you allows ERIKS to deliver the proven workable solutions that no other industrial services partners can formulate. These include but are by no means limited to:

■ Skilled project management

■ Intelligent sourcing based on practical industry understanding

■ Demonstrable savings track record

■ Highly targeted and effi cient processes

■ Health & safety issues minimisation

■ Scalable solutions from simple Findings Review to full Survey and Report

ERIKS KNOW-HOW CAN HELP

ERIKS MAKES THE DIFFERENCE

The ERIKS approach to ESOS is to encourage companies and workforces to analyse and adapt their working processes to optimise potential savings. To overcome the barriers to change that might hinder this progress, we fi rmly believe that an individual industry-sensitive approach combined with intelligent motivation will achieve far more positive results than the simple attainment of ESOS compliance alone.

Europe’s leading industrial services partnerAs a result of ongoing partnerships with growing numbers of industry clients, we have demonstrated our increasing ability to:

■ Identify with your business and your processes

■ Understand energy and how to reduce its consumption effectively

■ To ensure you comply and exceed regulatory and legislative measures

■ Employ highly qualifi ed, certifi ed, experienced and reliable people

www.eriks.co.uk/esos

esos@eriks.co.uk.

0121 508 6200