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Tag Archives: CRC
DECC confirms fee and dates for purchasing CRC allowances
The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has today published a new draft of the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme allocation regulations. There are three key points of interest: Dates for purchase and allocation of allowances Price of allowances Fees The regulations make provision for the sale of allowances in the first phase of [...]
Should you purchase CRC allowances in advance?
For some time now there has been speculation as to the potential advantage of buying allowances at the beginning of the phase and then surrendering them at the end of each year as required. Here at Local Energy we have developed a spreadsheet which can be used to work out whether it is worth [...]
CRC Performance League Table – Labour local authorities perform better than Cons and Lib Dems
Our analysis of the CRC Performance League Table (PLT) has found that amongst the 166 local authority participants in England and Wales, Labour councils performed better than Conservative and Liberal Democrat. Interestingly, councils with no overall political control performed significantly better than those with it. The Average EAM figures were 41.7 for those with no [...]
CRC participants who haven’t reported turnover risk unfair positioning in the next Performance League Table
Our analysis of the recently published Performance League Table has found that a large number of organisations (642/2103) have not reported their turnover. In particular, 25 of the 200 local authorities listed have failed to do so. Organisations who haven’t listed turnover will be given a score of 0 in the growth metric that compares [...]
CRC Performance League Table – key findings & summary
Here at Local Energy, we have been dissecting the first CRC Performance League Table. In particular, we have been interested in how the public sector fared. Here is a summary of our findings. Please click on the links for further information. 1. 40% of the participants had an EAM of 0 (803/2103) WSP Environment [...]
CRC Performance League Table – Local Authorities by region
Please click on the thumbnails Local Authorities by region tableAverage RankAverage EAM Average Emissions Name Email Organisation Phone no (optional) Comments
CRC League Table – Costs to local authorities
The total carbon emissions reported by local authorities in our table is 7,142,996 t/CO2. If a similar quantity is reported next year, the total cost of carbon allowances will be £85.7million at £12/t. The total reported by all 2103 participants in the league table is 61,168,143 t/CO2, costing £734million next year at £12/t. The local [...]
CRC Performance League Table – All Police
Rank Organisation Name Weighted Score Emissions (Tonnes of CO2) Early Action Metric (%) 118 West Midlands Police Authority 1985 24706 83.5 155 West Mercia Police 1947 8518 78 196 Greater Manchester Police Authority 1907 25201 74 244 Merseyside Police 1860 11552 68.47 284 Northumbria Police 1819.5 14317 61 369 South Yorkshire Police 1730 8879 50.5 [...]
CRC Performance League Table – All Universities
Rank Organisation Name Trading Name Weighted Score Emissions (Tonnes of CO2) Early Action Metric (%) 1 Keele University 2092.5 12663 100 30 University of Bath 2073 21861 98 34 University of Essex 2069 17773 97.5 48 The Open University 2056 16123 94.92 54 University of Central Lancashire 2050 14686 93.74 59 The Manchester Metropolitan University [...]

