Meet your SECR and ESOS obligations accurately and on time, while uncovering energy savings that improve your bottom line and strengthen your competitive position.
SECR and ESOS place significant reporting obligations on qualifying UK businesses, yet most organisations find these requirements confusing, time-consuming, and frustratingly opaque. SECR requires large unquoted companies and LLPs to disclose their energy use and carbon emissions within their annual directors' report, while ESOS demands that qualifying organisations carry out comprehensive energy audits every four years. Between the two schemes, thousands of UK businesses face overlapping deadlines, complex eligibility criteria, and data collection challenges that pull finance, facilities, and sustainability teams away from their core responsibilities.
The risks of getting it wrong are substantial. Non-compliance with ESOS can result in penalties of up to £50,000 plus additional daily fines, and the Environment Agency actively names non-compliant organisations in public registers. For SECR, failure to report accurately within your annual accounts can attract scrutiny from Companies House and undermine stakeholder confidence in your governance. Many organisations resort to last-minute scrambles to pull together the necessary data, producing low-quality reports that miss the energy-saving opportunities the legislation was designed to surface. By treating compliance as a box-ticking exercise, they waste the chance to identify genuine cost reductions hidden in their energy data.
Did you know? ESOS Phase 3 is now in effect, and the Environment Agency has signalled a tougher enforcement approach. Penalties for non-compliance can reach £50,000, with additional daily fines of £500 for continued breaches. Getting ahead of your obligations now is far cheaper than paying fines later.
We handle every aspect of your SECR and ESOS obligations, from eligibility assessment through to final submission, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and genuine value from the process.
We prepare your annual Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting disclosures for inclusion in your directors' report. This includes calculating your total UK energy consumption in kilowatt hours, your associated greenhouse gas emissions in tonnes of CO2 equivalent, and at least one intensity ratio that allows year-on-year comparison. We gather data from your electricity, gas, and transport fuel consumption, apply the latest government conversion factors, and produce narrative commentary that meets Companies House expectations. Our reports are designed to slot directly into your annual accounts with minimal effort from your finance team, ensuring a smooth sign-off process every reporting cycle.
We provide end-to-end ESOS compliance support, working alongside a qualified ESOS Lead Assessor to ensure your energy audits meet the requirements of the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme. This includes profiling your total energy consumption across buildings, transport, and industrial processes, identifying areas of significant energy consumption, and conducting site audits or ISO 50001 gap analyses where appropriate. For ESOS Phase 3, we also address the new requirements around net-zero action plans and enhanced reporting to the Environment Agency. Our approach ensures you are fully compliant while extracting maximum value from the audit process.
We believe mandatory reporting should do more than keep you out of trouble. By analysing the energy and emissions data gathered through SECR and ESOS, we identify practical, costed opportunities to reduce your energy spend and carbon footprint simultaneously. From building fabric improvements and HVAC optimisation to fleet electrification and renewable energy procurement, we translate compliance data into a prioritised action plan with clear payback periods and ROI projections. Many of our clients find that the savings identified through this process far exceed the cost of the compliance work itself, turning a regulatory burden into a genuine business advantage.
Our structured process removes the guesswork and ensures your obligations are met accurately, on time, and with minimum disruption to your teams.
We assess whether your organisation qualifies for SECR, ESOS, or both, based on employee numbers, turnover, and balance sheet thresholds. Many businesses are unsure which schemes apply to them, particularly those within group structures. We clarify your obligations and map out the deadlines you need to meet, so there are no surprises.
We provide a structured data request covering electricity and gas bills, transport fuel records, and any other relevant energy sources. For ESOS, we conduct site-level energy audits to identify where your significant energy consumption lies. We handle all the data gathering and reconciliation, drawing on your facilities, finance, and fleet teams only where necessary.
We calculate your total energy use and emissions, prepare your SECR disclosure narrative for your directors' report, and compile your ESOS evidence pack for submission to the Environment Agency. Every deliverable is reviewed by a qualified professional to ensure accuracy and full regulatory alignment before it reaches your desk for approval.
We support the formal filing process and ensure your ESOS notification is submitted correctly to the Environment Agency. Alongside compliance, we deliver a prioritised energy savings report detailing practical measures, estimated costs, payback periods, and projected carbon reductions. This gives your leadership team a clear roadmap for turning compliance data into bottom-line improvements.
Non-compliance with ESOS can result in penalties of up to £50,000, with additional daily fines for continued breaches. The Environment Agency publishes a public register of non-compliant organisations, creating reputational risk on top of financial penalties. Our end-to-end support ensures your submissions are accurate, complete, and filed on time, so you never face enforcement action or the embarrassment of appearing on a non-compliance register.
The energy audits and data analysis required by SECR and ESOS consistently reveal cost-saving opportunities that organisations would otherwise miss. From inefficient heating systems and lighting upgrades to transport route optimisation and procurement renegotiation, we typically identify energy savings worth 10-50% of current spend. These are not theoretical projections; they are costed, practical measures with clear payback periods that your facilities and finance teams can act on immediately.
SECR and ESOS compliance can consume hundreds of hours of internal staff time each cycle, pulling your facilities managers, finance teams, and sustainability leads away from their core roles. By handing the entire process to our specialist team, you free up your people to focus on what they do best. We handle the data collection, calculations, audit coordination, report writing, and filing, keeping you informed at every stage without burdening your team with the heavy lifting.
Book a free 30-minute consultation and we will assess your SECR and ESOS obligations, outline the data we need, and provide a clear timeline and cost estimate.
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