The Energy Efficiency Directive (27/EU/2012) ‘ESOS’

CLS Energy has taken all of its ESOS Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 customers to notification and full compliance. For our first 106# Phase 3 companies, we have saved a total of £81.53 m.

That amounts to an average cost saving of £769,153 per company and 125,446 tonnes of overall greenhouse gas (carbon) reductions for our 2022 Phase 3 customers.

That’s the equivalent of turning off the electricity for the year to 140,818 average UK houses (more than double the domestic properties in Oxford).

The third phase of ESOS (Phase 3) was completed on 6th August 2024 with a qualification date of 31st December 2022. If you feel you may have missed this deadline, please get in contact.

We are assisting several US and UK companies to deliver late compliance right now and are also assisting them with their mitigation processes.

We have also committed our services to four of our customers for ESOS Phase 4. We are also delivering the altered Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) to companies across the EU.

CLS Energy specialise in transport, logistics and haulage for companies that include:

A W Jenkinson Transport, Cardinal Global Logistics, Champion Groundworks, Continental Landscapes, Cubic Transport, Diesel Card Ireland, Enterprise Rent a Car (ROI), Fagan & Whalley, FloGas, Freightroute, GasRec, Greenhous, Gregory Distribution, GWRR Freightliner, Health Transportation Group, Howard Tenens Logistics, John O’Conner, Titan Airways, Uniserve, and Wincanton.

We also provide industrial specialisms and customers including:

Agilent, Aico, A W Jenkinson Forest Products, BSW Timber, Clancy, Cooke Aquaculture, Edgetech, Epwin Group, FC Groundworks, Fresenius Kabi, Freshpak, Future Industrial Services, Hallmark (UK), Headlam Group, Hitachi Trains, Hy-Ten Reinforcements, Inflite Engineering, M J Church, Nivea (Beiersdorf – UK, Sweden and Denmark), Porvair, ProAmPac, Sonova, Stryker, Thomas Armstrong, Tican Chilled, Toyota Tsushi, and Ultraframe.

However, we don’t just focus in these areas and also deliver compliance for a wide range of specialist companies and organisations such as:

Bottomline, Cognita Schools, Dardan Securities, Fintel, IKEA (Ireland), James Hargreaves, JMK Group,  John Pye Auctions, Lewis Silkin, Mamas and Papas, MGA Entertainment, Paladin, Paydens Pharmacies, Skyscanner, Unisys, the University of Buckingham, Vanderbilt (Denmark, Sweden and the UK), and Viking Cruises, and Worldline.

Farms including:

Clockhouse Farm, Edward Vinson Farms, and Juddmonte Farms,

We also deliver ESOS and SECR* for Charities including:

Cancer Research UK, Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity*, the Landmark Trust, and the RSPB.

With energy and fuel prices at double what they were in 2021, Energy efficiency measures, technologies, controls and behaviours that typically deliver double digit ROIs, are really delivering now.

Don’t wait, request a call from an energy or fleet specialist today – contact us – we would be very pleased to speak with you.

CLS will provide a specialist Lead Assessors that is professionally Chartered (Energy Institute) or Certified (Association of Energy Engineers) as an Energy Manager and registered and qualified to conduct EED ESOS for:

Manufacturing, Process,  Operations, Transport, Logistics and Haulage, or Buildings.

The Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) known in the UK as the Energy Savings Opportunities Scheme (ESOS), applies to all large organisations across the 27 European (EU) members states (and the UK, post Brexit).

CLS Energy can now provide fully compliant EED assessments across 14 EU member states. The 27 EU member states have slightly different criteria, see FAQ section entitled “Do ESOS and SECR apply to the UK only” or contact us to discuss specific requirements.

A large company in the UK is defined as having 250 or more employees or has an annual turnover of €50m (c £44m) and a balance sheet of €43m (c £38m) as at 31st December 2022 using Bank of England exchange rates. This has already changed for EED Phase  across the EU and is likely to change in the UK also. Large numbers of medium sized companies are likely to become mandated. Get in touch if you would like to discuss or get ahead of this legislation.

CLS Energy auditors conducted well over 400 compliant ESOS Energy, Fleet and Process Audits across four-member states with 91% of our Phase 1 customers returning to carry out their ESOS Phase 2 and 93% returning to conduct Phase 3 with us. Environment Agency randomised checks demonstrated all of our assessments as compliant. We have assessed well over 1,500 sites and profiled more than 340 large fleets.

It is important to note that fleet qualifications are not demanded of most ESOS registers. Where fleet represents a company’s Significant Energy Consumer (SEC), it is important to appoint an assessor that specialises in fleet. Otherwise, the assessment may not be compliant and may result in meaningless recommendations.

As well as being a Chartered Fellow of the Energy Institute (FEI) Alan Asbury is one of only six such people registered with the Energy Institute to conduct fleet assessments.

The deadline for compliance and notification for Phase 3 completion was 5th December 2023 (extended to 6th August 2024). If you believe you may need to comply, please don’t wait, get in contact for a no obligation discussion.

Companies that have recently achieved these thresholds, may not be required to conduct ESOS for Phase 3.

If you are yet to comply or feel you may need to, contact us for a confidential and no obligation discussion and advice on how we can assist you to establish, and if mandated, deliver compliance alongside some highly significant efficiency, cost and carbon savings averaging over 31%.

Government research shows that savings available for ESOS Phase 1 companies amounted to over £2.2bn. Government’s department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) analysis demonstrated savings acted upon are thought to be only £250mn (just 0.25% of the total available).

If you have more questions visit our FAQ section on ESOS and SECR.

For new Carbon related legislation, see SECR.