I am looking into this as we fall into the very generous scope of having more than 250 employees. Initial reading of the scheme seems very similar to CRC regulations in terms of parent companies taking control / responsibilities of all their smaller groups (which can be a nightmare in complex organisations) and completing annual energy audits. I only found about it last week through word of mouth so I think more publicity is required!

The audit scope is wide and I am sceptical of having this list of approved auditors having to sign off audits.

It also affects you if you have less than 250 employees, but a turnover of 50 million euros and balance sheet of 43 million euros at the end of this year or this years accounts.

The .Gov web site suggests that there will be a number of auditor registers, depending on the approval body and the first ones will be in place at the end of this summer.

So what register are you talking about, where did you find it.

Ps we have already had junk mail on this with a note that they report that the Government have estimated the compliance cost to be around £21k, but through the energy saving advice companies will save £60k. mmmm, I think I only believe the one number.

Chris

I also considered ISO50001 as an alternative.

The problem with ISO50001 is that it requires improvement not only of the system but also energy performance, year on year. ESOS regulations only require monitoring, you don't have to implement any suggested improvements ( either if your company just does not have the cash to invest or do not consider it financially justifiable).

Just reading the Regulations and noted that the "administrator" must publish the approved list of approved registers by 5/12/2014. Isn't that a bit late considering you need to start collecting your years data from 5/12/2014 to submit on the 5/12/2015.