H2 Horizontal Guidance Note : Energy
Efficiency
This guidance is one of a series of horizontal guides covering
all of the industrial (or agricultural) sectors that fall under
IPPC. In common with most of the IPPC guidance it is joint guidance
with the Environment Agency, SEPA and the Northern Ireland
Environment and Heritage Service (NIEHS).
The aim of the energy efficiency requirement of the IPPC
Directive is to minimise pollution arising from the consumption of
energy in industrial processes and thereby reduce the associated
environmental impacts. The EU has signed up to a United Nations
protocol, the "Kyoto Agreement", to reduce emissions of greenhouse
gases by 8% of 1990 levels, averaged over the years 2008 to 2012.
As part of its contribution to this agreement, the UK has a target
of 12.5% reduction. In addition, the UK government has set a
domestic target to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20% of 1990
levels by 2010.
The purpose of this IPPC Horizontal Guidance Note for Energy
Efficiency is to provide supplementary information, relevant to all
sectors, to assist applicants in responding to the energy
efficiency requirements described in the IPPC Sector Guidance Notes
(or the General Sector Guidance Note).
In particular, this note provides:
- further amplification of the interface between the regulatory
requirements of IPPC and climate change or trading agreements,
noting that continuing effort will be made to ensure that as far as
possible the two regimes are complementary, for example for
reporting of energy information, and the like;
- descriptions of the basic principles of energy efficiency and
energy efficiency techniques;
- information on the requirements for costs and benefits
appraisal of energy efficiency options according to the regulators'
preferred methodology of using discounted cash flow techniques,
with appropriate discount rates and project lifetimes;
- a cost benefit benchmark in terms of £/tonne of CO2, the value
of which will be confirmed in the light of information arising from
the Government's Climate Change Agreements and Emissions Trading
mechanisms;
- conversion factors for assessing the environmental impact of
the energy consumption.
IPPC H2
Horizontal Guidance Note: Energy Efficiency 
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