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Who doesn’t appreciate recognition? From the primary school child receiving a ‘gold star’ to the football star receiving the Player of the Year award. Your people and organisation are no different. So just how important is the power of reputation? Carbon Reduction Commitment An example of the potential power of reputation is the Carbon Reduction . . . → Read More: The CRC League Table and the Power of Reputation On Tuesday, the Environment Agency published some documents with new guidance regarding the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme. Oh boy. More material to digest, more guidelines to follow, more general confusion… Luckily, this is where we come in! Far from solely performing CRC internal audits, we also provide a complete CRC management and reporting service. The . . . → Read More: The CRC scheme and CRC Reporting – Confused? With the recent selling of visually creative social media app Instagram to Facebook for a whopping $1 billion, it’s clear that social media is here to stay and is only going to keep getting bigger and more popular. Once again, the cynics have been silenced (well, at least for a while) as they further realize . . . → Read More: Energy Savings, Carbon Reductions and… Social Media?! Hopefully, all participants managed to apply for their electricity and gas suppliers’ annual statements by 31 March. This will provide a valuable data source to validate consumption from invoice and meter data for CRC reporting. But did you find the suppliers less user friendly than last year? Last year, we emailed letters with the addresses . . . → Read More: Applying for Suppliers’ Annual Statements – not as easy as it should be? France has urged the European Commission to resolve a row over plans to make airlines using EU airports pay for their carbon emissions – a move that has angered the United States, India and China and stirred threats of a trade war. It has angered me too, as it feels like we have been waiting . . . → Read More: Carbon Emissions & Airlines – Can a Viable Solution be Reached? Have you scheduled your Year 2 CRC Internal Audit? This year is the first of many when the levy payment must be made, which, coinciding with the Annual Report submissions, must be paid before the deadline of 31st July 2012. With such large costs involved, the conducting of a thorough internal audit and the production . . . → Read More: CRC Internal Audit Process – Year 2 On 22nd March, I attended a CRC (Carbon Reduction Commitment) update workshop held by my new employers, Carbon Credentials, as part of my initiation into what has become my new field of work. One week into the new job, I thought I’d share some beginner’s insights into the world of CRC, EPBD, EPCs and other . . . → Read More: The World of Energy Savings – One Week In… So, I was lucky enough to get tickets to this year’s Brit Awards and I have to say it was impressive! As you may know, the O2 arena is a spectacular venue. The sound system in use pumps out a heavy sound and it was difficult to find fault with such powerful lighting and visual . . . → Read More: Carbon Credentials at the Brit Awards 2012 Management buy in for energy projects can often be difficult, as it often requires a dramatic change in approach to how organisations think about energy. Sometimes this can be to instil new processes for maximum effect, other times it is required in order to obtain the budgets required for capital expenditure on projects which will . . . → Read More: Tools for getting management buy in for energy management projects The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme is now truly upon us, and in July businesses across the UK will report energy performance now with the knowledge that the energy reported will bear a financial burden. Now we will be starting to see the CRC cost, and it is likely that many energy managers are struggling to . . . → Read More: Energy Data Management Helps to Understand an Organisation’s CRC Cost |
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