Meeting SECR for energy use made easier

We can help you with the hardware and software needed to easily and accurately tackle your SECR requirements. Our monitoring devices can deliver in use energy as well as all reporting and use MID certified devices for ultimate accuracy. Below are some helpful chapters taken directly from the GOV.UK website that will be of use to you.

Disclosures (taken directly from Gov.UK site)

UK energy use

• Electricity consumption – includes the purchase of electricity by academy trusts for their own use, including for the purposes of transport.
• Gas combustion – includes gas consumed for stationary or mobile activities for which the academy trust is responsible.
• Transport – includes energy consumption from transport where the academy trust is responsible for purchasing the fuel e.g. fuel used in company/fleet cars for business use, fuel used in personal/hire cars for business use (including where the academy trust reimburses staff for business mileage claims) and fuel used in academy trust controlled minibuses.
  
  This excludes where a transportation service is procured that includes an indirect payment for the fuel consumption e.g. train / plane / taxi / coach travel or similar where the academy trust does not operate the transport. However, an academy trust may elect to report them separately (including as part of Scope 3 emissions – see below).
• Collecting energy use data - It is not expected that academy trusts will need to engage specialist consultants to support the reporting requirements; the example below shows how an academy trust could calculate the figures themselves.
  
  Academy trusts must use verifiable data where reasonably practicable and should consider obtaining meter data or using invoices or annual statements from suppliers. Where verifiable data is not available academy trusts may estimate data by using data from another comparable time period to fill the gap, calculating figures using pro-rata extrapolation or benchmarking to proxy the energy consumption of one site to a similar site.

b) Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions

The trustees’ report must state the annual gross quantity of emissions in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent resulting from the total UK energy use from electricity, gas and transport, as defined above. Government emission conversion factors for greenhouse gas company reporting should be used to help measure energy consumption in common units.

c) Emissions intensity ratio

The report must state at least one metric which expresses the academy trust’s annual emissions in relation to a quantifiable factor. For consistency across the sector, academy trusts are encouraged to use tonnes of CO2e per pupil, with pupil numbers based on the Autumn Census data. The same ratio should be used each year for comparability.

d) Methodology

Academy trusts are required to disclose the methodology used to calculate the required information and it is important that robust and accepted methods are used.

There are several widely recognised independent standards available (as set out in the Guidelines) and the standard used in the worked example set out below is the GHG Reporting Protocol - Corporate Standard. Emissions are defined under three different scopes by the GHG Protocol.

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