CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme

[10] Many notable brands are listed in the League table including the big four supermarkets, Asda (37), Morrisons (56), Tesco (93), and Sainsbury's (164).

[11] In all 22 organisations shared first position, news stories focused on the fact that Manchester United Football Club was one of those at the top of the table.

[12][13][14] It has been announced that after July 2013, these league and performance tables will no longer be published, and will instead be replaced by a publication of participants' energy use and emissions.

The original proposal envisaged a revenue recycling mechanism,[18] however this was removed to support the public finances after the comprehensive spending review.

This came from the dialogue process the Department of Energy and Climate Change had been running from January, which was in response to the concerns of those organisations participating in the scheme that it was overly complex and this made compliance difficult and costly.

The draft legislative proposals will be published in early 2012 for formal public consultation which will amend the existing CRC scheme.

Among these proposals will be, continuing the fixed price sale (rather than auctions of allowances in a capped system) into the second phase, as recommended by the Committee on Climate Change, provide business with greater flexibility by allowing organisations to participate as natural business units, reducing the number of the fuels which are subject to the scheme from 30 to 4, removing the complex 90% rule and CCA exemption rules, whilst achieving broadly the same outcomes) and reducing overlap with other government schemes such as EU Emission Trading Scheme and Climate Change Agreements.