Environment Agency Guidance Documents
Official guidance on all aspects of complying with CRC obligations for participants and declarers is available on the Environment Agency: CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme webpages.
Podcast
An overview of the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme by Andrew Hitchings, CRC Project Executive, Environment Agency is available below.
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CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme Order: Table of Conversion Factors: Version 1
Under the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, participants will be obliged to measure the emissions from energy supplies for which they are responsible according to the relevant conversion factors. These relevant conversion factors are specified in the document below. These amounts will then be converted by the Registry into tonnes of carbon dioxide by the application of standard emissions factors.
The Environment Agency published guidance on Conversion and Emissions Factors which will give you details of how to use conversion and emission factors in meeting your reporting obligations under CRC.
DECC Guidance on the Early Action Metric under the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme: Carbon Trust Standard Equivalent Schemes
DECC has published guidance for the Environment Agency on criteria that alternative schemes to the Carbon Trust Standard (CTS) must meet in order to be approved as equivalent schemes under the Early Action Metric in the CRC. Details of the application procedures and application form are available on the Environment Agency: The Carbon Trust Standard and equivalent schemes web page.
Statutory Guidance on the Discretion of Penalties in the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme
DECC, the Scottish Government, the Welsh Assembly Government and the Northern Ireland Department for the Environment have issued statutory guidance to the administrators of the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme on discretion of penalties in the scheme.
This guidance is designed to provide guidance to the Environment Agency, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and the Chief Inspector (Northern Ireland Environment Agency) as the administrator of the Scheme on the imposition of civil penalties under the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme Order 2010.
Appeals guidance
DECC, the Scottish Government, the Welsh Assembly Government and the Northern Ireland Department for the Environment have issued guidance on the appeals process under the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme Order 2010.
The guidance details the procedures which both the scheme’s administrators (the Environment Agency, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and the Chief Inspector (Northern Ireland Environment Agency)) and appellants must follow in respect of a CRC appeal. An appeal form is also included to facilitate the submission of appeal notifications and statements.