- CRC Information Disclosure
Making an information disclosure Disclose Information Half Hourly Information disclosure
This section is for any organisation that has to make an information disclosure under CRC. It explains what information you must provide, by when and what happens if you don’t make a disclosure. If your organisation has at least one HHM settled on the half hourly market, but your total electricity consumption through all HHMs was less than 6,000 MWh over the course of the qualification period, you must make an information disclosure under CRC. This is done via the online CRC registry.
The information you disclose, helps improve Government’s understanding of energy use, and helps make sure that all HHMs settled on the HH market have been accounted for.
If you are required to make an information disclosure, you must provide the administrator with a list of all your organisation’s HHMs settled on the half hourly market, and calculate how much electricity you consumed through all HHM, including any AMR meters. If you consume more than 3,000 MWh in the qualification year, you must also disclose your total annual consumption of half hourly electricity during the period.
Disclose CRC Information
This is to improve the data available to Government on energy use in the target sector. If you consume less than 3,000 MWh in the qualification year, then you will need to tick the appropriate box on the online form. Your energy supplier should be able to tell you if you have any HHM settled on the half hourly market and your electricity consumption through these meters.
Information disclosure takes place during the registration period. For the introductory phase, this is 1st April 2010 until 30st September 2010 and you need to:
1. Add together the electricity consumed from all the HHMs your organisation is responsible for
2. Make sure your organisation did not consume more than 6,000MWh through HHMs during the qualification period, and use the online CRC registry to submit your information disclosure.
What happens if we do not provide the information?
If you are required to make an information disclosure but fail to do so by the end of the registration period, a fixed fine of £1,000 will apply.
In September 2009, the scheme administrator will send out a qualification pack to the individual billing address for each HHM settled on the HH market. The qualification pack will provide further details of the information disclosure process. It will also include details of the electricity consumed through that HHM over the qualification year. You can use this information to help you work out your organisation’s total electricity consumption.
CRC Exclusions
Sole traders are excluded from participation in the CRC, and are therefore no longer required to assess themselves for qualification or make an information disclosure, even if they are supplied by a settled half hourly meter. This revision was made on the basis that to include such business would place them under an administrative burden which was disproportionate to their emissions.
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