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Cutting your carbon emissions can help you to comply with legislation as well as reducing your costs and your impact on the environment.

There are a number of government initiatives to encourage paper and cardboard businesses to use fossil fuels more efficiently and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These include:

• Emissions Trading System (UK ETS)
• climate change levy
• climate change agreements

Find out more about carbon emissions trading and reporting schemes.

Check if the UK ETS applies to you

Paper and cardboard installations are required to reduce CO2 emissions under the UK ETS. You must have a UK ETS permit if your business:

• produces pulp from timber or other fibrous materials in industrial plant
• produces paper and board in an industrial plant that has a production capacity of more than 20 tonnes per day
• carries out combustion installation activities with a rated thermal input exceeding 20 megawatts

Reduce your Climate Change Levy (CCL) bill

The CCL is a tax on using non-renewable energy. If the CCL applies to your business you will already be paying it as part of your energy bill. Reduce your bill by using renewable energy and improving your energy efficiency.

Your business may be able to take advantage of a climate change agreement made between the Confederation of Paper Industries and the government. This agreement could allow you to claim an 80 per cent discount on your CCL if you achieve agreed targets for improving energy efficiency.

Improve your energy efficiency

The paper industry is an energy-intensive sector. You can save money and help the environment by taking steps to reduce your emissions and energy use.

Find out more about how to save money by using energy more efficiently.

Use renewable energy

Reduce your carbon emissions by using energy from renewable sources.

Buy your energy using:

• green tariffs where the provider buys the same amount of energy you use from a renewable source such as a wind farm
• green funds where the provider invests money into researching or setting up renewable energy projects

You might be able to participate in local community renewable energy schemes.

Generate your own electricity using wind, solar or other renewable energy sources.

Paper and cardboard manufacturing can be energy-intensive. By using less energy you can:

• save money on your fuel bills
• help to combat climate change
• improve your reputation with staff, customers and the public

Get an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC)

If you sell, let, construct or refurbish a building, you must obtain an EPC. This includes domestic, commercial and public buildings.

The certificate gives the building an A-G energy efficiency rating and recommends how you can improve the energy rating of the building.

If you are moving premises you should make sure you receive an EPC for the building from the seller or your landlord. The energy efficiency ratings are standard, so you can compare the energy efficiency of one building with another building of a similar type.

Check if you can claim an exemption or discount from the climate change levy (CCL)

The CCL is a tax on using non-renewable energy. If the CCL applies to your business you will already be paying it as part of your energy bill. Your business may be exempt from the CCL, or entitled to a discount, if you meet energy efficiency targets set out in a climate change agreement.

Smart energy meters

The government is introducing smart electricity and gas meters to help businesses save money and reduce their carbon emissions. Smart meters will mean automatic and accurate billing. They should allow you to monitor live energy consumption and prices to help you use less power at peak times when it is most expensive.

Reduce your energy use

You can monitor your energy use on a regular basis by reading meters and relating energy consumption to production levels and building occupancy.

Review the energy your business uses. Look at your business activities and think of ways that you could save energy. Compare the amount of energy that your business uses with industry standards. Your trade association can help you find this information.

Get advice on energy efficient design and technology when you build new facilities or carry out extensions and major upgrades.

Include targets and ways to reduce energy use in your environmental management systems (EMS).

You can get recognition for measuring and reducing your carbon emissions through the Carbon Trust Standard certification scheme.

Raise awareness among your staff about the cost of energy. Ask them to help you find savings. Get them involved in monitoring energy use.

Energy efficiency tips

You could:

• use a combined heat and power plant, as this is the most energy efficient way to produce the required balance of steam and electricity at many paper mills
• recover heat from steam and use it to heat water or dry paper
• recover heat from spent cooling water using heat exchangers
• use high efficiency mechanical dewatering at all stages to reduce the energy required to dry the web
• use heat recovery hoods over paper machines

Renewable energy is generated from natural sources. Microgeneration is small-scale use of natural sources to generate electricity.

Generating renewable energy can save you money and reduce the amount of greenhouse gases your business emits.

Renewable energy sources include:

• water or hydropower
• wind power
• solar power
• wave power
• tidal power
• biomass
• anaerobic digestion

For information about the different sources of renewable energy, see how to generate your own renewable energy.

Planning permission for renewable energy developments

If you want to build a renewable energy development you may need to apply for planning permission from the planning service.

Renewables in protected areas

If the site you wish to develop is in a conservation or protected area, you must notify the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA).

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If your site has archaeological or architectural interest you must inform NIEA.