The Cold Chain Federation announce that the businesses participating in the Government ’s Climate Change Agreement ( CCA ) for stale stores succeeded in meeting the arrangement ’s challenging target for energy efficiency improvements by the final stage of 2022 .
The cold-blooded storage CCA target for the destruction of 2022 required the participating facilities to improve energy efficiency by 6.67 % against a 2018 benchmark . Collectively , the facilities achieved an improvement of 6.735 % .
The CCA scheme operates across multiple manufacture , offering taxation benefits to business that sign on up for energy efficiency targets . The confederacy grapple the frigid storage CCA , which save the insensate storage manufacture more than £ 10 m each year .
Cold Chain Federation Executive Director Tom Southall : " Energy efficiency is a very mellow antecedence for cold storage facilities of all sizes , and the industry ’s success in meet this very intriguing CCA target reflects strong focus and meaning investing . "
" For many temperature - controlled warehouse operations , the most straightforward energy efficiency measures have already been implemented , so energy efficiency gains are now heavily gain . But the rewards are very significant both in Climate Change Levy savings and also in reducing sky - high vigour bills . batten down the extension of the scheme this yr was authoritative for our industry , it will avail us keep impulse towards net zero while also providing tax preservation of more than £ 10 m every year . "
The Cold Chain Federation campaigned for the cold storage Climate Change Agreement to be extended past 2025 , and an telephone extension was confirmed by the Government sooner this year , meaning that participating businesses that pass on their object will now do good from the Climate Change Levy rebate through to March 2027 . The schema also open a new software program window in summer 2023 for facilities seeking to link the scheme .
The next CCA target for dusty memory is to build on the 6.7 % energy efficiency advance accomplish by the end of 2022 to strive a 10 % melioration against the same 2018 baseline by the end of 2024 . There may be a routine of change to the scheme during 2024 : Climate Change Levy reducing rate are due to switch on 1st April 2024 , and other purport alteration include an increased buyout price ( rising from £ 18 to £ 25 / tC02e ) and the possibility of newfangled coverage requirements on energy efficiency measures installed and decarbonization voltage .
Southall : " meet the next target by the destruction of 2024 will be just as challenging , Cold Chain Federation member can draw on the backup we offer , include our Practical Guide to Energy Efficiency in Cold Stores ; webinars about the CCA and its requirements ; our Cold Chain Energy Week webinar serial ; and our Net Zero Cold Store Project resources . We will also be launching a newfangled Cold Store Energy Benchmarking Dashboard in November , a unexampled tool to help our phallus to better valuate the vigour performance of their facilities and place the best opportunities to make improvements . "
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