Three obligations, one underlying dataset
Many UK organisations now face three overlapping reporting obligations that have historically been treated as separate workstreams: SECR (annual energy and carbon disclosure in the Directors' Report), ESOS Phase 4 (the four-yearly energy audit, action plan and progress updates), and the emerging UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS). Each has tended to come with its own consultants, its own data pulls and its own timeline. But they draw on roughly 70 to 80% of the same underlying energy data, which means treating them as one coordinated exercise saves significant time and cost.
Where the overlap sits
At the centre of all three is the same thing: a complete, defensible record of the energy your organisation consumed (electricity, gas, other fuels and transport) across your sites and operations, over a defined period. SECR turns that into kWh and tCO₂e figures plus an intensity ratio. ESOS uses it to establish total consumption, define your areas of significant energy consumption, and frame the audits. UK SRS, aligned to the ISSB standards, draws on the same energy and emissions foundation for climate-related disclosure. Collect and structure the data once, and most of the work for all three is already done.
The cost of doing it three times
When these obligations are run independently, organisations pay for the same data to be gathered, cleaned and reconciled three times, often by three different parties, arriving at three slightly different numbers. That is not just inefficient; it is a governance risk. If your SECR figure and your ESOS total energy do not reconcile, you have a problem to explain. A single data spine removes the divergence by design: there is one source of truth, and each framework is a different view of it.
How to build the spine
Start by centralising energy data ingestion. Accept raw bills, half-hourly data and fleet records in whatever format they arrive, and map them to sites, fuels and time periods automatically. Align your reference periods where you can (an ESOS reference period that matches your financial year can also serve SECR). Retain the underlying records as evidence, so the same dataset supports an audit-ready SECR disclosure, an ESOS evidence pack, and UK SRS disclosure. The goal is simple to state and powerful in practice: collect the energy data once, report it three ways.
What this looks like in Climatise
This is the model Climatise is built around. The platform ingests your energy data, structures it into one defensible dataset, and produces each framework's output from it: a one-click SECR disclosure, an ESOS Phase 4 workflow with an assessor-ready evidence pack, and the energy and emissions basis for UK SRS. For in-scope organisations it removes duplicated effort; for the consultancies that deliver these obligations, it means one dataset per client serves every engagement.