The final Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) performance league table has been published by the Environment Agency. The league table ranks just over 2,000 organisations in order of their energy efficiency performance for the year 2011/2012. The table ranks relative performance of CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme participants against the three weighted metrics: Early Action Metric, Absolute Metric, and Growth Metric.
The performance league table was first introduced though the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme Order SI 2010/768. However, the Government announced in their Autumn Statement that the league table would be abolished in order to make the CRC scheme more simple, making this latest table the second, and last.
Ranking at the top of the table is the BAM Group (UK) Limited, followed by Skanska Construction Holdings UK Limited, Motorola Solutions UK Limited and Manchester City Council. The surprise leaders from the 2010/2011 table, Manchester United, now find themselves in 488 place.
David Symons, Director at environmental and engineering consultancy WSP, said that most companies were showing a 7% average improvement in carbon emissions per unit of turnover, and added, "If all companies in the league table were to just improve their performance by the 7% average, they would together cut UK carbon emissions by 1.6million tonnes, take £1.8m off their energy bills and avoid having to buy £19m of CRC allowances."
However, this latest table has seen significant delays in being published because of errors in information and inaccurate data. Commenting on the delays and the last table, the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) said, "Although this is the last set of league tables under the CRC scheme, companies will still have to submit performance data in future years and pay for allowances. With the delays that have occurred this year, due to concerns regarding the accuracy of the data reported to the regulator, the key question the Environment Agency needs to answer is what measures will be taken to ensure accuracy of the data in future."
The full CRC performance league table can be seen on the Environment Agency's website, at http://cedr.ec/nk.
