services

• electricity & gas
  • market intelligence
  • benchmarking
  • procurement
    • commercial negotiation
    • competitive assessment
  • energy management
  • contract adminnistration
  • invoice management
  • technical services
    • load management
    • smart metering
• new connections
• environmental management
  • energy efficiency
  • carbon management
    • carbon offsetting
    • climate change levy
    • carbon reduction
  • building certifications
  • renewable energy
• water
  • market intelligence
  • invoice management
  • leak detection
  • distribution services
  • surveys & design

environmental management: carbon offsetting

The UK government is increasingly committed to ensuring that business and public sector bodies play their part in addressing the problems of climate change. Many firms are already engaged in high profile initiatives to deliver real cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

UK businesses and the public sector will be forced to deliver real, measurable reductions in absolute levels of energy consumption on a year on year basis through mechanisms like the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC). This will apply mandatory emissions trading to cut carbon emissions from large commercial and public sector organizations.

ESP use Government approved schemes to offset our clients' carbon emissions with Kyoto-compliant credits. Our schemes deal in Certified Emissions Reductions (CER’s) or EU Allowances (EUA’s), both of which are internationally verified carbon emissions units. By adopting this approach you have the assurance that your organisation will be taking the right action towards making a positive environmental impact.

Carbon offsets are simply generated in one of two ways: 1) investment in Clean Development Mechanism Projects in industrializing countries to produce CER's or 2) EUA's are purchased under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme