What information will be made publicly available from the ESOS phase 3 notification document?
Published: 4 March 2024
The Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) requires large undertakings to conduct comprehensive energy audits of their buildings, transport and processes to identify opportunities for improving energy performance.
As part of this process, ESOS requires businesses to submit a notification to the administering body to demonstrate compliance. Some of this data remains confidential, however, following the changes to the ESOS regulations, more commercial information than ever will be made publicly available.
ESOS is now expanding beyond corporate information into actual performance metrics. The key additions are related to actual energy reduction data such as estimated savings achieved since ESOS phase 2 (December 2019 until present), and disclosure of the potential energy savings identified as part of ESOS phase 3 audits.
The aim is by increasing disclosure and transparency, internal and external stakeholders will be able to scrutinise how a business is performing in terms of energy efficiency, and therefore encourage greater action.
What information from the ESOS notification document will be made available to the public?
Participating businesses should be aware that the following items included within the ESOS notification document will be made available to the public from June 2024 onwards.
- The registered name of the organisation
- The registered office of the organisation
- The principal place of activity
- Company registration number
- Trading name(s), or commonly known name(s), where different to the registered name(s)
- The parent company name, where relevant
- Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code
- The qualification criteria met by the company on 31 December 2022
- A corporate group structure chart setting out the relationship between the organisations covered
- The highest UK parent company(s)
- Any organisations within the corporate group participating separately
- Any organisations that have ceased to be part of the corporate group between the qualification date and the compliance date
- Whether or not the notification is on behalf of a trust or a franchisee group
- Job title of the responsible person for ESOS
- Job title of the second responsible person for ESOS
- Any alternative compliance route, such as ISO 50001 or DECs
- Details of any estimations undertaken in the absence of verifiable data
- The number of sites visited for each energy audit
- The total number of sites covered by the energy audit; and
- The reasons why the sites visited are considered to be ‘representative’.
- Total energy consumption in kWh for the reference period
- The significant energy consumption in kWh, where relevant
- The percentage of total energy consumption that is covered (i.e. >95%)
- An energy intensity ratio for buildings, transport, industrial processes and other energy uses
- Estimated annual energy savings which could be achieved as a result of implementing all opportunities identified
- Which assets and activities fall under alternative compliance routes
- The percentage of total energy associated with each route
- Estimated potential annual savings which could be achieved under each alternative compliance route
- An estimate of energy savings achieved since ESOS phase 2
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