IE provided full ESOS compliance for a leading theatre group, within the initial deadline with no business disruption and providing clear energy saving advice.

Introduction
ESOS is the mandatory energy assessment scheme for organisations in the UK, administered by the Environment Agency. The assessments must look at the energy used across an organisation’s buildings, processes and transport in order to identify energy saving opportunities.
IE works with a leading energy broker to provide full energy management services, and through this, offered an ESOS solution to all their clients that fell into the scope for ESOS assessment.
This large venue theatre group were one of those organisations.
They instructed their ESOS work to be carried out by IE due to the appeal of having it delivered by one party because to the complexity that can arisen from energy data requests.

What we did
We carried out full ESOS compliance services including reviewing all energy data, identifying
de-minimus areas (transport), undertaking all necessary site energy audits, providing all required reports including the group report and making final signed off submission to the Environment Agency before the compliance deadline of 5th December.
IE undertook four site energy audits ranging from a leading West End London theatre, to regional
multi-function entertainment venues. When all of the findings were extrapolated over the whole estate, we identified savings of £720,000 per year. This equated to 25% of their energy spend. The payback on these improvements was under 3 years.

This theatre venue group has a very mixed estate from modern purpose built venues with heat pumps and sophisticated control systems, to historic and listed buildings. Reviewing the energy management across the estate required a broad range of knowledge of a wide variety of systems.
Given that they have been very proactive in energy saving over the past few years finding quick win recommendations was more challenging but a detailed review of the operation still managed to uncover further fast pay-back measures which are available.