Both public and private sector organisations must make an information disclosure under CRC if they had one or more half hour electricity meter at any time during 2008.

All participants are required to register for the CRC by the end of September 2010. However, the scheme administrators have indicated that the process of checking identities will need to be carried before any organisation can successfully register for the scheme, and participants should allow at least two weeks for this to happen.

Organisations will be required to participate in the carbon reduction commitment, if their total half hourly metered electricity exceeds 6,000 MWh from 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2008. For the purpose of determining the scheme qualification, the government has proposed that the definition of "half hourly metering" will include all meters that monitor electricity consumption on a half hourly basis. To this end, half hourly metering will include voluntary automatic meters that produce half hourly data.

In calculating the crc emission factors with regards to electricity consumption within organisations and subject to the carbon reduction commitment, a five-year average emissions factor will be applied to all electricity. To this end, the same factor will be used to measure emissions from all organisations regardless of whether or not they purchased their grid electricity supply from a wind power, nuclear, coal powered or any other form of electricity generation scheme.

A significant subsidiary is any part of a larger organisation that in itself consumed more than 6000 MWh of half hourly electricity during 2008. In this circumstance, the significant subsidiary may be able to enter into the carbon reduction commitment scheme in isolation from the rest of its parent or group organisation.

Whilst qualification for the Carbon Reduction Commitment determined by electricity use, it aims to capture all non-transport energy consumption. As a result, if you're in the Carbon Reduction Scheme, you will be required to report on electricity, gas, oil, diesel etc.

Core sources in the CRC includes all half hourly metered electricity, profile class 5 to 8 electricity, daily metered gas and non-daily metered gas over 73,200kWh per annum.

2008 -- the period from January 2008 to December 2008 will be used to identify which non-energy intensive organisations in the UK have consumed more than 6,000 MWh of half hourly metered electricity.

July 2009 - The Environment Agency issued letters to the billing address of all half hourly metered properties toi make them aware of the Carbon Reduction Commitment.

The carbon reduction scheme is currently aimed at approximately 5,000 of the UK's largest organisations, including supermarkets, banks, property management companies, government departments, hotel groups, food retail chains and local authorities.

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