Carbon emissions will assume an even higher profile once the
Climate Change Bill becomes law and the Carbon Reduction
Commitment (CRC) is introduced.
Current proposals would make it essential for processors to
manage their footprint.
"The government is widening the scope of regulation of
carbon emissions and this will affect the whole new tier of
organisations" says Becky Warren, solicitor in
Eversheds' Clean Energy and Sustainability team.
If companies, including subsidiaries, use more than 6,000MW
hours of electricity, measured by half-hourly meters, they will
be obliged to register with the Environment Agency that they
are a CRC organisation by June 2009. Not doing so is likely to
be an offence under the CRC Regulations, which are currently
being drafted. The proposed penalty would be a fine per tonne
of carbon dioxide emitted and the organisation would be
publicly identified. Those that pass
