Because it’s part of the Climate Change Bill, targeted organisations will be legally required to make the necessary preparations before April, when the scheme officially starts.

The scale of these reformations is like nothing UK business and public sector organisations will have experienced – as the Carbon Reduction Commitment’s primary objective is to reduce carbon emissions from UK organisations by 1.2 million tonnes per year. If that wasn’t ambitious enough, they aim to achieve that reduction figure by 2020.

This growing pressure on businesses, schools and other public organisations to actively lower their emissions is becoming a headache for traditional energy suppliers.

Since the 70s, their estimated billing systems has relied almost entirely on analogue meter readers. But the new wave of carbon focused bills, commitments and acts has sealed the fate of analogue meter readers, which are now becoming increasingly outmoded.

In its place will be Smart Meters, which can accurately monitor and control energy use.

The problem for traditional suppliers is cost of buying and installing Smart Meters on a national scale. Their budget for service equipment is simply too small for a national reformation of their billing system.

Not much comfort to organisations being told they have to comply with legal requirements of the scheme namely, the bit that says publishing (exact) energy emission figures is mandatory.

Enter independent energy brokers, who have been quietly expanding their product offerings in preparation for this new era of emission conscious businesses. It’s now boom time for the likes of Catalyst Commercial Services, who are using their offering of free Smart Meter fittings as an entry-point with the many organisations that traditional suppliers cannot help.

Meaning traditional suppliers could lose out even further down the line – especially considering that independent brokers have acquired carbon reduction focused services and products beyond Smart Meters.

Which goes to show that prosperity favours the prepared, as independent energy brokers are now ideally positioned to supply organisations-in-transition with the efficiency solutions they will eventually need.

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