Whether it’s project consultancy, training, management and engineering, we have the expertise you can always call on and always on your own terms. This industry knowledge and in-depth capability have made us first call for so many clients as their Lead Assessor to advise and guide them through ESOS in order to meet the December 2015 deadline.

1. ARE YOU
RUNNING OUT
OF TIME FOR
ESOS?
ERIKS Guide to:
Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme

2. Administered by the Environment Agency, the Energy Saving
Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) is a mandatory EU energy
assessment scheme for all large UK undertakings. ESOS
assessments must be carried out every four years by all
qualifying organisations.
These audits of the energy used by large companies in their buildings, industrial processes
and transport are used to identify cost-effective energy-saving measures. The latest deadline
for notifying The Environment Agency that an organisation is ESOS-compliant is
5th December 2015.
Who carries out ESOS assessments?
If you qualify for ESOS and your organisation is not fully covered through ISO 50001
certification, you need to appoint a lead assessor to conduct and/or supervise your energy
audits and approve your overall ESOS assessment. Lead assessors can be employees
or from external contractors as long as they are registered members of an approved
professional body.
As a knowledgeable, experienced and approved assessor, ERIKS can help you carry out
and/or review your assessments, compiling the necessary Evidence Pack for submission to
The Environment Agency in time for December deadline and avoiding the potential financial
penalties that can range between £5,000 and £50,000.
ESOS is the UK’s response to Article 8 of the European
Commission’s Energy Efficiency Directive. Its aim is to cut carbon
emissions by requiring large businesses to identify energy
reduction measures and as such forms part of the UK’s own drive
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050.
Leaner and greener
With the Government anticipating energy savings for UK companies of approximately
£1.6billion, ESOS compliance will encourage larger organisations to fully analyse their
energy consumption business-wide and set in motion the necessary actions to save on
energy costs year on year as scope for improvement is identified within the four-yearly
assessment cycles.
For the majority of companies, the costs of ESOS will represent a fraction of their annual
energy spend but ESOS compliance will ensure that energy costs are continually reduced.
Not only will this lead to an increase in company profitability but also to its competitiveness
in the marketplace. An additional advantage will be the way in which ESOS provides ongoing
action-based deliverables that will support a company’s superior sustainability reporting.
Deadline for Compliance
05|12|2015
ESOS CAN
HELP YOU:
■ Minimise overall energy
consumption
■ Reduce greenhouse gas
emissions
■ Lower overall energy costs
■ Increase profitability
■ Strengthen competitiveness
■ Improve sustainability reporting
WHAT IS ESOS?
HOW WILL ESOS
BENEFIT YOUR BUSINESS?

3. All major UK businesses will be affected by the Energy Savings
Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) regulations and legislation
requires all large undertakings to carry out an energy audit by
5th December 2015 and every four years subsequently.
Non-compliance is not an option and can result in financial
penalties ranging from £5,000 to £50,000.
A large undertaking is defined as any UK company that either:
■ Employs 250 or more people
■ Has an annual turnover of over €50 million (£38,937,777) and an annual balance sheet
of over €43 million (£33,486,489)
■ An overseas company with a UK-registered establishment with 250 or more UK
employees (paying income tax in the UK)
Unless 100% of your organisation’s energy use is covered by ISO 50001 certification, you
will need to appoint a Lead Assessor to check and confirm that your assessment meets
ESOS requirements. Your Lead Assessor can be either someone employed in your
business or from an external contractor but must be a member of an approved ESOS lead
assessor register.
A Lead Assessor’s role could involve undertaking, advising on or reviewing the
following activities:
■ Determining energy use profiles
■ Calculating energy/cost savings of measures identified – life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA)
or another method like Simple Payback Period (SPP)
■ Identifying energy saving opportunities
■ Presenting audit recommendations
■ Developing a process for how new audits should be done
■ Developing a sampling approach
■ Developing an audit timetable
■ Determining the number of site visits required
■ Pulling together data for an ESOS Evidence Pack
Your Lead Assessor can either carry out your ESOS assessment and audits themselves or
check that those done by others who are not registered Lead Assessors fully comply with
the ESOS requirements.
UK REGISTERED WITH
250+ EMPLOYEES
ANNUAL TURNOVER OF
€50M AND A BALANCE
SHEET EXCEEDING €43M
PART OF A GROUP WHICH
INCLUDES THAT CRITEREA
CALCULATE YOUR TOTAL
ENERGY CONSUMPTION
OVER A 12 MONTH PERIOD
IDENTIFY AREAS OF
SIGNIFICANT USE
(90% OF TOTAL SPEND)
APPOINT A LEAD
ASSESSOR TO COMPLETE
ENERGY AUDITS
REPORT COMPLIANCE TO
ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
PRIOR TO DEADLINE
CHOOSING
A LEAD
ASSESSOR
DOES IT APPLY TO
MY BUSINESS?
APPOINTING A
LEAD ASSESSOR
■ Do they have energy auditing
experience in the right sector?
■ Are they familiar with technology
and processes in your industry?
■ Do they have experience of
auditing against particular
standards, for example to ISO
standards?
■ Can they call upon a network of
technical support for guarantee
of every saving option?
Under ESOS, energy usage is defined
as all forms of energy products that are
both supplied to and consumed by an
organisation including combustible fuels,
heat (excluding an organisation’s surplus
heat from industrial processes), renewable
energy and electricity.
Each qualifying ESOS participant must:
■ Measure its total energy consumption
■ Identify areas of significant energy
consumption
■ Consider available routes to compliance
■ Ensure areas of significant energy
consumption are covered by a route
to compliance
■ Appoint a lead assessor either internally
or externally
■ Get one or more board level directors to
review the assessment findings
■ Make a notification of ESOS
compliance online
IF THE ANSWER IS YES TO ONE
OR MORE OF THESE CRITEREA
BELOW ESOS APPLIES TO YOU

4. ERIKS’ know-how and passion for technology are at
your disposal - how you want them, where you want
them, when you want them. From the simplest level
of product supply and logistics to the highest level
of long-term strategic planning.
Whether it’s project consultancy, training, management and engineering,
we have the expertise you can always call on and always on your own
terms. This industry knowledge and in-depth capability have made us first
call for so many clients as their Lead Assessor to advise and guide them
through ESOS in order to meet the December 2015 deadline.
STEP 1
SCOPING REVIEW STEP 2
TRANSPORT REVIEW
STEP 2
DATA COLLECTION
STEP 2
EFFICIENCY AUDITS
STEP 3
DEVELOP & PRESENT
STEP 4
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
OPPRORTUNITIES REPORT
ESOS is here and compliance is mandatory.
Act now to avoid backlog and delay as the deadline looms. Benefit from
energy savings and improved profitability as soon as possible.
Go to www.eriks.co.uk/esos to register or call 0121 508 6200 today and
start the ESOS the ERIKS way.
Not only do we know and identify with your industry area but also, thanks to our comprehensive coverage
of a broad range of manufacturing and other industrial disciplines, we can apply relevant lessons learned
elsewhere to your own particular field.
Sharing the benefits of transferable diligence with you allows ERIKS to deliver the proven workable solutions
that no other industrial services partners can formulate. These include but are by no means limited to:
■ Skilled project management
■ Intelligent sourcing based on practical industry understanding
■ Demonstrable savings track record
■ Highly targeted and efficient processes
■ Health & safety issues minimisation
■ Scalable solutions from simple Findings Review to full Survey and Report
ERIKS KNOW-HOW
CAN HELP
ERIKS MAKES
THE DIFFERENCE
The ERIKS approach to ESOS is to
encourage companies and workforces to
analyse and adapt their working processes
to optimise potential savings. To overcome
the barriers to change that might hinder this
progress, we firmly believe that an individual
industry-sensitive approach combined with
intelligent motivation will achieve far more
positive results than the simple attainment of
ESOS compliance alone.
Europe’s leading industrial services partner
As a result of ongoing partnerships with growing
numbers of industry clients, we have demonstrated our
increasing ability to:
■ Identify with your business and your processes
■ Understand energy and how to reduce its
consumption effectively
■ To ensure you comply and exceed regulatory and
legislative measures
■ Employ highly qualified, certified, experienced and
reliable people

5. www.eriks.co.uk/esos
esos@eriks.co.uk.
0121 508 6200