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ISSUE TWO WINTER 2014/15
THE ENERGY SAVINGS audit to identify cost-effective energy
OPPORTUNITY SCHEME (ESOS) efficiency plans that it can feasibly implement.
The deadline for compliance of phrase two is
We all want to save energy. company as "large". If this sounds like your December 5, 2019.
Whether it's in our homes, offices company, you need to do three things to
or industrial plants, minimising comply with the assessment. Finally, the third phase requires relevant
monthly bills and helping reduce companies to share a report of the previous
climate change are increasingly These three phases have a completion time of step with the Environment Agency.
important factors that affect our four years each.
everyday lives. However, whilst in Using this self diagnostic process, large
the home it's relatively easy to The first phase is to measure total energy companies can devise and implement energy
ensure lights are not left on consumption across buildings, transport and efficiency strategies to reduce running costs
unnecessarily and electrical industrial processes. Energy auditing activity - and help contribute to lowering the UK's
devices don’t spend endless for example the Carbon Trust Standard dating carbon footprint.
hours on standby, for large back to December 2011 - can be used to
businesses it's considerably support compliance, provided it meets the Here at European Automation we know some
more difficult. That's why the UK minimum requirements of ESOS. shocking industry facts in regards to
government has launched the efficiency, or rather, inefficiency.
Energy Savings Opportunity “ 65% OF THE UK'S
Scheme (ESOS). INDUSTRIAL 65 per cent of the UK's industrial energy
ENERGY consumption comes from electric motors
Established by the Department of Energy and CONSUMPTION alone. That's a massive 20 per cent of the
Climate Change (DECC), ESOS is a COMES FROM UK's total energy consumption.
response to the requirement for all member ELECTRIC MOTORS
states of the European Union to implement ALONE ”Alternatively, if you have an ISO50001 energy Using a variable speed drive (VSD) on a
article eight of the Energy Efficiency Directive. management system covering your energy motor can severely reduce energy
usage, this is sufficient to constitute an ESOS consumption, in some cases by as much as
The scheme is estimated to lead to £1.6 assessment too. This first phase must be 60 per cent. It's therefore surprising that these
billion net benefits to the UK - that's the cost of completed by December 5, 2015 for your humble devices are often neglected or even
running just over 1.2 million standard light business to be considered compliant. fitted improperly, rendering them useless.
bulbs for a year.
The second phase of the assessment Forgetting the financial costs of not
ESOS is a mandatory energy assessment involves a company conducting an energy implementing a VSD for a second, if just half
and energy saving identification scheme for of Britain’s electric motors were reduced in
large companies in the UK. To clarify this speed by ten per cent, it would have the net
further, 250 employees or more, annual effect of mitigating for the carbon emissions of
turnover exceeding £39.8 million or a balance 9.8 million executive saloon cars every year.
sheet exceeding £34.2 million qualifies a That's quite an astounding decrease: mother
earth certainly would be pleased with that.
So if you're a large company involved with
ESOS, you might want to think about some
cost and energy-efficient tactics - maybe give
us a call, we'd love to help. It could benefit
billions of people in the long run.
04 AUTOMATED | THE QUARTERLY MAGAZINE BROUGHT TO YOU BY european |automation
THE ENERGY SAVINGS audit to identify cost-effective energy
OPPORTUNITY SCHEME (ESOS) efficiency plans that it can feasibly implement.
The deadline for compliance of phrase two is
We all want to save energy. company as "large". If this sounds like your December 5, 2019.
Whether it's in our homes, offices company, you need to do three things to
or industrial plants, minimising comply with the assessment. Finally, the third phase requires relevant
monthly bills and helping reduce companies to share a report of the previous
climate change are increasingly These three phases have a completion time of step with the Environment Agency.
important factors that affect our four years each.
everyday lives. However, whilst in Using this self diagnostic process, large
the home it's relatively easy to The first phase is to measure total energy companies can devise and implement energy
ensure lights are not left on consumption across buildings, transport and efficiency strategies to reduce running costs
unnecessarily and electrical industrial processes. Energy auditing activity - and help contribute to lowering the UK's
devices don’t spend endless for example the Carbon Trust Standard dating carbon footprint.
hours on standby, for large back to December 2011 - can be used to
businesses it's considerably support compliance, provided it meets the Here at European Automation we know some
more difficult. That's why the UK minimum requirements of ESOS. shocking industry facts in regards to
government has launched the efficiency, or rather, inefficiency.
Energy Savings Opportunity “ 65% OF THE UK'S
Scheme (ESOS). INDUSTRIAL 65 per cent of the UK's industrial energy
ENERGY consumption comes from electric motors
Established by the Department of Energy and CONSUMPTION alone. That's a massive 20 per cent of the
Climate Change (DECC), ESOS is a COMES FROM UK's total energy consumption.
response to the requirement for all member ELECTRIC MOTORS
states of the European Union to implement ALONE ”Alternatively, if you have an ISO50001 energy Using a variable speed drive (VSD) on a
article eight of the Energy Efficiency Directive. management system covering your energy motor can severely reduce energy
usage, this is sufficient to constitute an ESOS consumption, in some cases by as much as
The scheme is estimated to lead to £1.6 assessment too. This first phase must be 60 per cent. It's therefore surprising that these
billion net benefits to the UK - that's the cost of completed by December 5, 2015 for your humble devices are often neglected or even
running just over 1.2 million standard light business to be considered compliant. fitted improperly, rendering them useless.
bulbs for a year.
The second phase of the assessment Forgetting the financial costs of not
ESOS is a mandatory energy assessment involves a company conducting an energy implementing a VSD for a second, if just half
and energy saving identification scheme for of Britain’s electric motors were reduced in
large companies in the UK. To clarify this speed by ten per cent, it would have the net
further, 250 employees or more, annual effect of mitigating for the carbon emissions of
turnover exceeding £39.8 million or a balance 9.8 million executive saloon cars every year.
sheet exceeding £34.2 million qualifies a That's quite an astounding decrease: mother
earth certainly would be pleased with that.
So if you're a large company involved with
ESOS, you might want to think about some
cost and energy-efficient tactics - maybe give
us a call, we'd love to help. It could benefit
billions of people in the long run.
04 AUTOMATED | THE QUARTERLY MAGAZINE BROUGHT TO YOU BY european |automation
