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CRC
Expert guidance and implementation of the mandatory UK Government scheme for carbon dioxide trading.
Around 5,000 UK companies and organisations are currently being contacted with regards to the forthcoming Carbon Reduction Commitment scheme.
Your organisation will be included in the CRC if it has at least one meter settled on the half-hourly market - and its total half-hourly metered electricity use is greater than 6,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2008. If your organisation, including any parent company and its subsidiaries, spends more than £500,000 a year in the UK on electricity, you are likely to be included in the scheme.
Qualification for the scheme is based solely on half-hourly electricity usage. However, once the scheme starts, you will have to monitor and report energy use emissions from all sources except for transport, emissions covered by the EU ETS and emissions covered by Climate Change Agreements.
The CRC will target the UK emissions of the highest parent organisation. If you are that organisation then you will need to consider the electricity use of your subsidiaries to assess whether you are included in the scheme. You will also be responsible for reporting on your total energy use emissions, including those of your subsidiaries.
If you are a subsidiary of an organisation, you will need to pass on information about your energy use to your parent for them to report to Government at the end of each year.
2009 has been the baseline year for CRC, and therefore the benchmark for comparison with future performance. Organisations need to know the emissions from at least 90% of all sources in their organisation.