Comply with Energy Legislation and Standards

Driven by efforts to reduce climate change, governments worldwide are imposing an increasing amount of energy regulations and directives on businesses and the public sector

Legislation does not necessarily need to be only a burden. It often offers opportunities to improve processes and data quality and can result in identifying substantial energy and cost savings.

TEAM’s services and products are helping organisations report on and work towards reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions to comply with energy legislation. For more information see “How TEAM can help” tab.

Business Benefits

Whilst energy and carbon legislation is often seen as an additional burden on organisations, there can also be a number of opportunities associated with some directives and regulations.

In most cases energy legislation requires some form of reporting on energy consumption or carbon emissions, and therefore calls for and justifies efforts to put processes in place for collecting high quality data or improving data quality. Future energy management efforts can benefit from this data, leading to the identification of potential cost savings.

Legislation which entails the publication of energy performance ratings (like for Display Energy Certificates in the UK) also helps energy managers justify the implementation of carbon reduction measures in order to improve ratings or rankings. Energy performance ratings provide an excellent way to benchmark buildings, helping identify the worst performing buildings in your portfolio and to direct saving measures to where they can make the biggest difference.

How TEAM can help

TEAM offers a multitude of products and services to support organisations in their efforts to comply with energy legislation and standards.

As part of our outsourced energy bureau services we help organisations by providing data required for government and other reporting, for example ERIC returns in the UK health sector.

TEAM software offers solutions for compliance with legislation and standards including

• CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme
• Display Energy Certificates
• BS EN 16001 (ISO 50001)

A host of different reports included in the TEAM software provides easy access to information required for government and other reporting.

In the UK our energy consultancy team provides services to support organisations with the following legislation and standards:

• CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme
• Energy Performance in Buildings Regulations including Display Energy Certificates, Energy Performance Certificates and Air Conditioning Inspections
• BS EN 16001 (ISO 50001) – Energy Management System Standard
• ISO 14001 – Environmental System Standard