Energy Compliance Guides
ClearLead Energy Legislation Compliance Guide: ESOS
ESOS (Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme) is a mandatory energy auditing scheme for all large organisations in the UK.
EHS Legal Update Service
Our legal update service keeps track of a wide range of new and amended legislation, guidance and consultations across the environmental, energy and health & safety fields. We review a wide range of sources to ensure we fully understand the changing requirements and identify those that may be of relevance to your sector and organisation.
Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES)
MEES was introduced in 2015 and originates from the Energy Act 2011 which also contained a package of energy efficiency policies including the Green Deal.
Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR): Brief
A simple, user-friendly overview of SECR legislation and how to comply with it.
Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR): Detailed
SECR is going to be far from 'Streamlined' for many organisations. Our briefing, produced in conjunction with Pinsent Masons, highlights some of the issues around compliance with this new framework.
Dave Covell
Director at ClearLead
Georgie Messent
Partner at Pinsent Masons
ISO 50001 Energy Management System
ISO 50001 is an international Energy Management Systems standard. Here's what you need to know about it, and about how ClearLead can help you.
Energy efficiency guides
Free guide: Energy Efficiency Incentives and Programs in BC
This Energy Efficiency Incentives Guide contains all of the energy incentives from BC Hydro, FortisBC and others in one short, easy, free document! The Quick Reference Sheet condenses the important program information down to one page for easy reference.
Energy Efficiency Incentives Guide
Quick Guide to Energy Efficiency Incentives. Commercial and Industrial.
Publications
Prediction of blowoff in a fully controllable low-swirl burner burning alternative fuels: Effects of burner geometry, swirl, and fuel composition
Graham Ballachey, whilst an Energy Consultant at ClearLead, co-authored a paper with Professor Matthew Johnson of the Carleton University Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department on predicting the stability of a fully-controllable lean-premixed low-swirl burner burning methane and various biofuel gas mixtures (biogas and syngas). The low-swirl burner (LSB), originally conceived of by Chan et al. (1992), is a novel method of stabilizing ultra-lean premixed flames to achieve extremely low NOx emissions (<20 ppm at 3% O2). Although the lean-premixed low-swirl burner (LSB) has been successfully demonstrated in several different applications, the exact mechanisms that stabilize the flame have not been fully understood.
Using the fully-controllable LSB combined with stereoscopic PIV measurements, flow-field characteristics and flame stability were investigated over wide range of operating conditions. Two distinct types of blowoff were identified (R- and W-blowoff). A semi-empirical correlation to predict W-blowoff was developed based on the strength of the 3D-shear layer created between the outer annular and inner core flows (Vdiff), the laminar burning velocity of the fuel/air mixture, and the average exit velocity from the nozzle. This semi-empirical correlation provides a useful tool for LSB design applicable to varying fuel mixtures, fuel/air ratios, heat release rates, and geometric scales.
READ PUBLICATIONA comparison of greenhouse gas emissions in the residential sector of major Canadian cities
Adrian Mohareb,an Energy and Sustainability Engineer at ClearLead, co-authored a paper with University of Cambridge post-doctoral fellow, Eugene Mohareb, which compared greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the residential sector in six major Canadian cities (Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax). Their assessment highlights that the housing sector’s per capita GHG emissions are related to local climate, the average age of buildings, the heating source, average occupancy per household, the proportion of single family dwellings, and the carbon intensity of the electrical grid. Using a model developed during Eugene’s Ph.D., they found that Halifax has the highest per capita emissions, and Montreal has the lowest. The provincial electrical grid has a considerable influence on GHG emissions, with power generation technologies varying considerably across the country.
READ PUBLICATIONPresentations
APEGBC Conference 2013 EV Presentation
Kody Baker
Perkuna Engineering, 258 Raymur Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
John Foster
ClearLead Consulting, 108-245 Fell Ave, North Vancouver, BC, Canada.
APEGBC Saving Energy on Ships 2014 Presentation
Adrian Partridge
ClearLead Consulting, 108-245 Fell Ave, North Vancouver, BC, Canada.