Introduction
Centre Circle Event Management Ltd (CCEM hereafter) is a company that provides security staff for some of the UK’s most iconic venues and events, such as football stadiums and music venues.
Beginnings
It started with the introduction from our community: Richard Whitney from Edinburgh based On-site Generation. Richard, like Beyond Green’s Director, Paul Adderley, is a registered ESOS Lead Assessor; CCEM had initially reached out to him, but he did not have capacity at the time and redirected them to us. With Christmas 2024 fast approaching, Beyond Green promptly responded to the call for help from CCEM to support them with their ESOS Phase 3 compliance. This was CCEM’s first experience of ESOS compliance, and they were unaware of the requirements going into the project.
Now
We quickly reassured them, explained how to engage with the Environmental Agency, and set up templates for the CCEM team to collate the necessary energy data before we all headed off for a well-deserved festive break.
As we embarked on the new year, the Beyond Green team drew on their experience of delivering six ESOS Projects in 2024 alone, and nearly 1000 energy assessments overall, to deliver the three key requirements for this project:
- Calculate Total Energy Consumption and Significant Energy Use
- Conduct an Energy Saving Opportunity Assessment for CCEM’s head office, and transport activities
- Prepare the ESOS report for CCEM’s board
The BG team drew on their digital expertise to facilitate a virtual energy savings ideas session. Using an online whiteboard tool (Miro), we guided the CCEM team through a brainstorming and prioritisation process to identify viable energy and cost saving actions around using company cars and grey fleet. Our Miro process allows everyone to participate and to easily develop ideas together. Once we had some great ideas in the bag, we then worked with CCEM’s finance director to quantify the savings; examples include the fuel saved from staff staying in rented accommodation for summer events, and switching to Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) or Electric Vehicles (EV).
Future
Central to how we work is collaboration to ensure we bring along all those involved on the journey to a lower carbon future. We hear that the ESOS process has energised the team to be more engaged with energy management, and CCEM’s operations team is already switching to EVs and PHEVs ahead of plan. CCEM’s landlord has also been very supportive, and new smart electric heaters are now being installed.
ESOS requires companies to submit progress to their action plans in December 2025, and CCEM are already ahead of the curve!