Many moons ago we built a Performance League Table PREDICTOR (according to the EA formula)  to help those at the bottom plan their assent, i.e. a strategy might have been to hold back on saving programmes now and then go for it in later years.

Well, now the Performance League Table for the CRCEES is out. It makes interesting reading for those that want to know and predicting performance will be important if the PLT gets some gravitas.

What happened to the 692 original Registrants that are not in the PLT – they seem to be missing, did they go bust, merge or leave the country to set up overseas as they threatened – or are they all exempt due CCAs?

To be honest, at Carbon Guerrilla we always thought that the first couple of years, with the weighting for Early Action Metrics (EAM) as it is, were hardly going to produce tables that allow statistical and significant comparison - with 802 participants in joint last place, it looks like we were right.

Performance was critical when the revenue payments were going to be recycled. It would have been intensely irritating for those that did not have the time and resources or indeed property portfolio to undertake any of the EAM to then have to pay up for the lucky sods that that did.

Don’t get us wrong we are not knocking the PLT. In practice it will be a very useful and powerful way to benchmark those involved in the CRCEES – but that’s exactly what it needs to do, benchmark on a like for like basis – hence the change in weighting from EAM to Absolute and Relative performances over the next few years.

So we look forward to that day - let’s compare Apples with Apples rather than Apples with a Vegetable Shaped Very Much Like a Thingy, as Baldrick might say.

Our PLT Predictor is available for those that want to know by the way, give us a shout.

http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/analysis/2123487/crc-performance-league-table-reaction

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/business/topics/pollution/134754.aspx

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/blackadder/epguide/two_beer.shtml