ESOS Regulations are here - Are you caught?

No avoiding the obvious...

In December 2015 the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme comes into force and is mandatory. This is a European regulation that will require all firms employing more than 250 staff and/or with a turnover of more than 50m Euros to identify cost effective savings measures and carry out ESOS assessments every four years.

Crucially for most managing agents you will qualify if there are more than 250 employees within your wider corporate group - so if you are a subsidiary of a large organisation you will need to act now or ensure that your parent is acting.

Also, importantly for some, ISO14001 will not qualify you for ESOS. For this you will need to undertake ISO50001.

In essence ESOS will require you to do three things:

1. Measure your total energy consumption.

2. Conduct energy audits and identify efficiencies.

3. Report compliance to the Environment Agency.

The scheme is estimated to bring £1.6billion of energy saving to UK firms by 2030.

Full details can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/351158/ESOS_Guide_FINAL.pdf