The UK government has launched its proposals for a new energy efficiency scheme targeting businesses, requiring all large enterprises to carry out comprehensive energy audits to identify cost-effective energy saving opportunities. Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme Launched as a part of the UK’s implementation of the EU’s Energy Efficiency Directive, the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS)... 

Ealing Council is hoping to chop 29% off its energy bill following a series of upgrades to three of its buildings. Ealing’s Town Hall is a distinctive late-Victorian gothic building on Ealing Broadway Ealing Town Hall, Perceval House and Greenford Hall – all owned by the council – are undergoing a major energy overhaul as part of an energy performance contract (EnPC) between Ealing Council... 

Six west London councils could potentially cut their energy demand by up to a quarter, according to research carried out by “built environment” scientists at the Building Research Establishment (BRE). The report, commissioned by the six-strong group of councils in the West London Alliance (WLA), highlighted key energy saving opportunities in the west London boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Ealing,... 

UK county councils and city councils could save £500 million a year with an energy performance contract (EnPC), according to energy services company Anesco. Adrian Pike, CEO of Anesco, said an EnPC, also known as the  ‘ESCO model’, could reduce councils’ energy expenditures by around a third each year, potentially rising to up to 50% in certain areas, and generating annual savings running... 

The Energy Managers Association (EMA) has slated the Treasury for its failure to include any significant measures to help businesses cut their energy use in its 2013 budget. “This budget shows that the government is not focusing on the upcoming crisis in energy supply and demand,” Lord Rupert Redesdale, chief executive of the EMA, told Energy Demand. “The Chancellor talks about growth but... 

This article has been contributed by James Swanston, CEO of Carbon Voyage. James chairs the EMA’s Transport Working Group. In another life he was an officer in the Australian Army and now is a Major in the British Territorial Army.  In the early 1970s, work was undertaken to try and address issues around workplace health and safety; while a major report in 1972 advocated self-regulation...