Energy management key to meeting climate change commitments

clipped from www.energyefficiencynews.com The Government’s new mandatory Carbon Reduction Commitment scheme could save businesses £1 billion by 2020. Douglas McLeish, Corporate Markets Director at npower discusses why businesses need to start planning now and why an effective energy management programme is essential. It is less than a year to go until the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) goes live in April 2010. Large retail chains, industrial businesses, banks, universities, call centres and public sector bodies will all be among the organisations covered in the scheme, which aims to reduce the UK’s emissions by 1.2 million tonnes of carbon per year by 2020. The CRC has been on the horizon for a while. In May 2007 the Government announced its intention to implement this new scheme in the Energy White Paper, making the initiative compulsory for businesses and organisations with annual electricity consumption through half hourly meters of at least 6000 MWh.