CRC Simulation Project year

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The CRC Simulation Project has been designed to provide organisations with the means to put in place the mechanics for data collection, reporting and planning for the CRC.

Timeline

The CRC Simulation Project runs from April 2009 to March 2010. The table below outlines a number of milestones and key dates that participants need to be aware of.

Milestone	Action	Date
Baseline energy data	Send data / template to TNEI	31st July 2009
Cumlative energy data (April, April and May or April, May and June)	Send data / template to TNEI	31st July 2009
TNEI to notify participants of their available Carbon Allowances	TNEI to email participants with details	August 2009
Purchase carbon allowances	Participants to advise TNEI on purchasing	12th August 2009
First league table published	TNEI to notify participants - league table to be circulated by email	August 2009
Trading information	TNEI to email participants membership number and password. Issue trading guidelines	4th September 2009
Networking event - How to Trade	Attendance would be beneficial	8th September 2009
Notification of trading opportunity	TNEI to notify all participants by email that they are able to view allowances available	30th September 2009
1st trading event	Participants to register and trade between the hours of 9am and 5pm	7th October 2009
Notification of trading opportunity	TNEI to notify all participants by email that they are able to view allowances available	1st December 2009
2nd trading event	Participants to register and trade between the hours of 9am and 5pm	9th December 2009
Networking event - What the League Tables tell us?	Publishing the League Table, CTS and AMR advice	15th December 2009
Second League Table published	TNEI to notify participants - League Table to be circulated by email	15th December 2009
Notification of trading opportunity	-	3rd February
3rd trade date	-	10th February
3rd trading event	-	2nd March
Notification of trading opportunity	TNEI to notify alll participants by email that they are able to view allowances available	3rd March 2010
4th trading event	Participants to register and trade between the hours of 9am and 5pm	10th March 2010
Final league table published	-	May 2010

Events

A number of events will be held throughout the year. The aim of these events will be to provide opportunities for participants in the Simulation Project to network and learn from other organisations. The events will also enable the project team to feedback on experiences and the Performance Table.

Recruitment Day

A recruitment day took place at Ramside Hall on Tuesday 2 June.

The purpose of this event was to encourage regional companies and organisations to sign up to the CRC Simulation Project.

Speakers from TNEI and One North East provided potential participants with background information concerning the CRC and the regional CRC Simulation Project. The sessions outlined the benefits of participating in the CRC Simulation Project.

To register your interest in attending future recruitment days please email stating your name, company and contact information to Louise Hodges on louise.hodges@tnei.co.uk

Go to CRC Simulation presentation (pdf)>>

Go to Carbon Reduction North East project overview presentation (pdf)>>

Go to official CRC Sign Up agreement (pdf)>>

Training Day

A training day was held at TNEI's offices on 17th June. Four sessions were held during the day. Each session provided participants with further detail about the level of data required, how to collect, collate and report that data, to provide an outline of how data will be used in the Performance Table and quarterly reviews.

In addition to this participants received information about the level of assistance available to help individual companies indentify and collect data and prepare Carbon Management Plans and quarterly reports.

For those companies who did not attend the above training day, help and advice is available directly from the CRC team at TNEI.

Networking Events

These events will be designed to enable participants to meet others to share their experiences and to learn from each other at informal networking events.

The proposal is to hold these events after work at TNEI’s offices and to provide drinks and a buffet. The event will be hosted by the CRC Simulation Project Director who will provide a progress report to those attending.

There will be an opportunity to ask the project team specific questions regarding the project itself or wider CRC issues, as well as to network with other organisations affected by the CRC.

Networking Day 1: Tuesday 8 September

The first networking duty outlined the plan for the project and the requirements from each participant.

In addition to this the First League Table was published based on calculating the participants Early Action Metric. From this it was evident that 25% of participants have some level of Early Action Metric (principally AMR), only 7% had both Carbon Trust Standard and AMR. In summary 3 out of 4 companies will score zero on the Early Action Metric.

Download the first league table

Download the presentation for the networking event held on 8th September

Networking Day 2: Tuesday 15 December

The second networking day provided participants with an overview of the Early Action Metrics and had speakers covering the Carbon Trust Standard, BSI Kitemark Scheme and Automatic Meter Reading. This event was very kindly hosted by Northern Rock.

TNEI published the Second League Table at this event. The table was calculated using the energy data for each participant and their Early Action Metric scores, and also included the metrics for Performance and Growth in line with the CRC Guidelines. The weightings for the metrics followed the CRC guidelines and all participants were requested to provide the relevant information. Where this was not forthcoming a zero ranking was given.

Download the presentation for the networking event held on 15th December

Download the second league table

Click here to view the Carbon Trust Standard

Download the BSI powerpoint presentation

Download the Invisible Systems presentation

Networking Day 3: Tuesday 3 March

The main speaker at this event were KPMG who spoke about carbon audits, governance and lessons they have learnt from work with clients and other simulations in other regions. This was a practical guide to some of the potential pitfalls of data collection and reporting.

In addition One North East provided some feedback regarding their future plans and TNEI advised on progress of Carbon Reduction North East to date, the third trade that took place in February, preparation for the fourth trade in March and the final few weeks of the simulation.

Download the presentation from the networking event on 3 March

Download the KPMG presentation

Templates

Participants in the CRC Simulation Project are requested to provide the project team with information about their baseline energy use. To assist all participants a number of templates have been developed to provide a framework for data collection.

Please contact the CRC team for electronic copies of the templates. These will be sent out to you along with worked examples for your information. Once you have collected the data please email this back to the project team.

Once completed all data should be emailed back to the project team at crc@tnei.co.uk

Trading

Organisations will be given an opportunity to experience Carbon Trading activities through a purpose built on-line auction site. All organisations participating in the Carbon Reduction North East project will be encouraged to take part in the trading to enable them to understand the mechanics of buying and selling Carbon Allowances.

There are four Trading Sessions.

These sessions will be held in October 2009, December 2009, February 2010 and March 2010.

Organisations will be given two weeks notification of the Trading sessions to allow them to collect and submit data and 'lots'.

For the Carbon Reduction North East exercise 'Carbon Allowances' will be grouped into lots. Details of those lots will be available to registered buyers who will be able to access the secure auction site using a unique username and password.

The auctions operate on a simple 'English Auction' system whereby buyers enter a bid for individual lots. Once the bid has been entered it is binding and can only be displaced if another buyer enters a higher bid within a certain timeframe (the bidding window). If no competing bidder challenges the standing bid within the bidding window, the lot is awarded. If a higher bid is entered within the specified timeframe, the bidding window restarts.

The Third and Fourth Trading events have been designed so that participants can buy and sell allowances.

To find out more visit the NFPAS website: http://www.nfpa.co.uk/

Feedback

The region recognises that the introduction of the CRC will have a major impact on North East companies and organisations. One North East are keen to use the CRC Simulation Project as a means of gauging the regional requirement for ongoing support to companies and organisations once the CRC is in place.

Support may be in the form of training, CRC programme advice, the provision of information or other support measures identified.

If you have any suggestions that the CRC Simulation project Team can put forward to One North East please download and complete the attached form and return it crc@tnei.co.uk