Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Page 5
Page 6
Page 7
Page 8
Page 9
Page 10
Page 11
Page 12
Page 13
Page 14
Page 15
Page 16
Page 17
Page 18
Page 19
Page 20
Page 21
Page 22
Page 23
Page 24
Page 25
Page 26
Page 27
Page 28
Page 29
Page 30
Page 31
Page 32
Page 33
Page 34
Page 35
Page 36
Page 37
Page 38
Page 39
Page 40
Page 41
Page 42
Page 43
Page 44
Page 45
Page 46
Page 47
Page 48
Page 49
Page 50
Page 51
Page 52
Page 53
Page 54
Page 55
Page 56
Page 57
Page 58
Page 59
Page 60
Page 61
Page 62
Page 63
Page 64
Page 65
Page 66
Page 67
Page 68
Page 69
Page 70
Page 71
Page 72
Page 73
Page 74
Page 75
Page 76
54 BREWING BEVERAGE INDUSTRIES BUSINESS Resources - Energy management Britains brewers mark a 10-year milestone in energy management Richard McCann raises a glass to their success and investigates and how other sectors are now implementing the methodology. Energy efficiency has long been important to the brewing and pub trade. The industry became a pioneer when it first started collecting energy data in the wake of the OAPEC energy crisis when the price of oil quadrupled in weeks during 1974. But undoubtedly the big change kicked off in 19992000 when the industry started preparing for the introduction of the 2001 Climate Change Levy which ushered in a new world of energy taxes for the first time. The industry responded positively to governments decision to introduce Climate Change Agreements by devising early methodology to monitor energy use and efficiency. 2002 was the first time most manufacturing industries were formalised into a government scheme and by 2004 collection of energy data had become critical and the brewers collectively appointed David Sheen as Policy Manager Economy and Environment. Carrots and sticks We were quite narrow in our focus at that time in terms of the manufacturing process remembers David. Carbon footprinting was only on the periphery a decade ago. So we were focussed on the production facility. Its the most measurable and its where the biggest savings could be made. But of course audit is now spread more widely across the supply chain. At this stage the agreement between government and the industry was voluntary with a carrot of significant tax discounts on climate change levy as an incentive to get involved. But over the decade EU emissions trading schemes have started to become more punitive and schemes such as carbon reduction commitment have come along says David and that is pure big stick no carrot. In terms of climate change agreements Youre currently looking at discounts of around 4m a year across the brewing sector explains David. A decade ago that was maybe 7m because companies were using more energy. The tax rate has gone up but the level of energy use has gone down. Watershed The industry encountered a watershed in 2010 with the Industry Energy Efficiency Accelerator programme. This was the end of the first phase of climate change agreements and the Association immediately applied to take part on behalf of its members. If phase one was about taking the obvious steps towards efficiency then phase two heralded a step change in assessing what technologies the industry could use to make some big bites into a brewerys energy use. Rather like an action movie trailer bellows Theyre Back and This Time its Serious the brewers realised the need for outside expertise and called in Will Todd a boffin contracted by the Carbon Trust who became managing director of BFBi member consultancy Carbon Architecture. This was the first time wed had a sector-wide energy balance calculation remembered David. Every year we fed the data wed collected back to our members so they could compare their own results against the industry average and their peers. This was the first step to benchmarking and promoting technology throughout the membership and we followed up with in-depth looks at three or four of our biggest member companies. continued on page 56 54_Layout 1 21042016 1503 Page 1