The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) says UK organisations will collectively save £1bn by 2020 through the Carbon Reduction Commitment – the soon to be mandatory efficiency programme for large energy using businesses and public bodies.
The CRC becomes obligatory for the highest energy users – those that spend roughly half a million pounds on energy per year – on April Fools’ Day 2010. Organisations bound by the scheme will have to purchase carbon emission credits costing £12 per tonne of CO2. In the first three years companies can buy as…
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