Energy managers should be aware of two new points of Environment Agency (EA) guidance on the new Carbon Reduction Commitment scheme if they are to derive the maximum benefit, an energy and climate change consultancy has warned.
Chris St. John Cox, principal consultant, carbon management and regulation, at AEA (pictured), elaborated: “Early action metric scores will now be based on supply coverage. i.e. kWh, not emissions coverage, and credit will only be received through automatic meter reading (AMR) meters for the period of time in 2010/11 that they qualify as AMR, not for the entire yearly supply.” AEA says energy managers looking to install automatic meter reading equipment should ensure they fully understand how the metric will apply – as it affects their league table position and revenue recycling payments over the scheme’s first three years. Chris St. John Cox added: The early action metric being based on supply, rather than emissions, coverage, as originally planned, is significant, because the emissions intensity of electricity is nearly a factor of three greater than for gas. The business case for additional AMRs should therefore be based on the energy supplied through each meter, and not the associated emissions. “Secondly, participants will only get credit for the supplies through AMR meters for the period in 2010/11 they qualify as AMR, not for the entire yearly supply for every meter that is AMRqualifying at the end of the year.”
