SECR Services
What We Do
Energy and carbon disclosure shouldn't be a scramble every year-end. Danesmead Advisory helps qualifying UK companies and LLPs meet their Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) obligations accurately, on time, and in a format that stands up to scrutiny.
We work with your finance and operations teams to pull together UK energy consumption data, calculate the required greenhouse gas emissions figures, and set a meaningful intensity ratio — then draft the narrative on efficiency actions that goes into your Directors' Report or LLP Members' Report.
Typical Scope:
Confirm whether you fall in scope (including the 40 MWh low-energy-user exemption)
Collect and sense-check energy and emissions data from your sites, fleet, and utilities
Calculate Scope 1 and 2 emissions using current government conversion factors
Draft the SECR disclosure and efficiency narrative for your annual report
Advise on voluntary Scope 3 disclosure where it strengthens your ESG story
Keep you ahead of regulatory change, including the upcoming shift toward UK Sustainability Reporting Standards
Whether this is your first year in scope or you're looking to tidy up a process that's outgrown a spreadsheet, we'll make sure your SECR reporting is complete, defensible, and done with minimum disruption to your team.
Our SECR Service
Plan
Confirm whether you fall in scope
Collect
Collect energy usage data for sites and fleet and calculate emissions.
Report
Draft the SECR disclosure and narrative for your annual report.
Monitor
Ensure your reporting stays ahead of regulatory changes.
Sustainability Reporting Standards (SRS)
There have been some rumours that SECR is being phased out in favour of new UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS), but that's not confirmed government policy — a 2026 government review recommended retaining SECR with amendments, and a related consultation on streamlining energy and emissions reporting was not yet launched as of August 2026.
Danesmead Advisory can keep you advised on any changes to SECR and UK SRS as they occur.
What is SECR
Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) is a UK mandatory reporting framework that requires certain companies to disclose their energy use and greenhouse gas emissions each year, alongside a description of any energy efficiency actions taken. It came into effect for financial years starting on or after 1 April 2019, replacing an earlier scheme, the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme.
Who has to report:
All quoted companies, regardless of size
Large unquoted companies and large LLPs that meet at least two of three thresholds: £36 million turnover, £18 million balance sheet total, or 250 employees.
Organisations can claim a low-energy-user exemption if their relevant energy use is 40 MWh or less in the reporting period.
What has to be disclosed:
UK energy use and associated Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions
At least one emissions intensity ratio
The methodology used
Prior-year comparative figures (from the second reporting year onward)
A description of the principal energy-efficiency measures taken
Quoted companies report on a global basis rather than just UK operations. Scope 3 emissions remain voluntary under SECR, though some organisations choose to disclose them as part of broader ESG reporting.
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