The Environment Agency have announced a new batch of audits into ESOS Phase 1, which finished for most people in 2015.\u00a0 Special congratulations to my client “PS” who was notified earlier this week by the EA that they have opened up one of these compliance audits of their ESOS Phase 1 assessment which we did, indeed, complete in 2014 \/ 2015 for them, ie 4 or 5 years ago.<\/p>\n
There are a few problems with this audit, not least of which:<\/p>\n
The bigger question, though, is what the Environment Agency hope to gain from the exercise.\u00a0 Another of my clients, “BN”, were not happy when we had to revisit one of their audits last year to add 2 company cars to the Total Energy Consumption of their 2015 audit, increasing it by 0.1% but meaning we had to re-run all of the reports for the entire submission as a result.\u00a0 It was a waste of my time, a waste of our client’s money and achieved nothing of significance.<\/p>\n
Client PS, the lucky recipient of this new, presumably unwanted, attention is a small charity and as both of the people who read my blogs will already know, I am strongly in favour of smaller charities having an opt-out for ESOS.\u00a0 This decision to audit them will cause them more expense for very little gain is one that should be reversed.\u00a0 When their charitable benefactors\u00a0donated their hard-earned money to the charity I’m sure that they would far rather it spent on the charities clients than paying us to increase their TEC by 0.1% or whatever else pops out from the audit.<\/p>\n
Note:<\/strong> There is a provision in the recent guidance notes allowing for new recipients of ESOS Phase 1 compliance audits to apply for the audit to be transmuted into a compliance audit of ESOS Phase 2.\u00a0 If you are unlucky enough to get summoned for one of these new ESOS Phase 1 compliance audits, drop me a line and we’ll do our best to get this swapped over to ESOS Phase 2 for you.<\/p>\n Enistic help companies manage their energy and have been doing so since 2009.\u00a0 We are market leaders in ESOS auditing, energy monitoring via meters of all forms and we carried out over 2,000 ESOS site audits during ESOS phase 1.\u00a0 We develop and maintain Plato, a cloud-based Energy Management Platform that helps a large number of medium-sized and Enterprise level organisations manage their energy in real-time throughout the world, including several listed companies.\u00a0 We are based in Oxford but have distributors worldwide and have national reach when it comes to ESOS Audits.<\/p>\n If you would like more information about ESOS and see our Top 5 Tips On How to Make The Most Out Of ESOS,\u00a0click here to download our guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n Darryl is the founder of Enistic and has personally been the responsible ESOS Lead Assessor on over 250 ESOS Audits.\u00a0 He advises on how to reduce energy use in over 2,000 sites throughout the UK and is doubly certified for ESOS by two independent ESOS approval bodies.\u00a0\u00a0 He is an approved ISO50001 Lead Auditor and holds the industry-specific CEM and CMVP qualifications awarded by the Association of Energy Engineers.<\/p>\nWant more information?\u00a0 Download our guide \u201cTop 5 Tips On How to Make The Most Out Of ESOS\u201d<\/h1>\n
Want some help?\u00a0 Speak to Darryl Mattocks<\/h1>\n