Is product or technology NOT on the Energy Technology List inefficient?
No! The ETL only includes technologies and products approved by the Carbon Trust. Exclusion of a technology or product does not mean that product is inefficient. A technology NOT on the list can still be the best available technology for the application. The ETL/ECA scheme is intended to support product areas that have a commercial barrier to wider use. Once well established technologies and products may be removed as the application is commercially viable without tax incentives. Therefore, technologies that are current best practice and economic to implement now will NOT be on the ETL. Technology categories are updated annually and as a result newly developed technologies often have to wait for assessment and approval. Equally, many technologies find it difficult to obtain approval due to the rules of the scheme. For example, building energy management systems (BEMS) are not an approved technology despite the fact that BEMS is a proven energy management tool. The reason is simply that
