Comparison
Climatise vs Spreadsheets
The manual status quo for ESOS and carbon reporting. See how Climatise compares for UK carbon accounting.
Feature Comparison
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Why Climatise
Key advantages over Spreadsheets
One workflow, not one file per client
ESOS Phase 4 runs as a repeatable workflow with defined stages and sign-off points. A bespoke spreadsheet per client is fragile, hard to hand over, and breaks down across a multi-year cycle of action plans and progress updates.
Your evidence pack assembles as you work
Reports, energy data, group structure, compliance-route evidence and MESOS submissions are collected automatically as each document is finalised, then download as one ZIP. With spreadsheets, the evidence pack is rebuilt by hand months later.
Audit trail on every number
Every figure traces back to its source document. Spreadsheets accumulate broken links, untracked manual overrides and version chaos, which is exactly what fails under audit.
Collect once, report three ways
ESOS Phase 4, SECR, and UK SRS share 70-80% of the same energy data. Climatise holds one defensible dataset and produces each output from it; spreadsheets duplicate the same data-gathering three times.
Frequently Asked Questions
For ESOS Phase 4, yes. Spreadsheets were built for a four-yearly, one-off audit. Phase 4 is an ongoing cycle: qualification, audits, Lead Assessor and director sign-off, MESOS notification by 5 December 2027, then an action plan and two annual progress updates. Climatise runs that as one repeatable, audit-ready workflow across every client, where a bespoke spreadsheet per client is fragile, hard to hand over and rebuilt from scratch each time.
Yes. Upload your existing energy data, bills and workbooks in whatever format they are in (CSV, Excel, PDF) and Climatise maps them to sites, fuels and periods automatically. You keep continuity of your historical figures while moving onto a structured workflow with a full audit trail.
Spreadsheets look free but carry a real cost: analyst time re-keying data, rebuilding the evidence pack by hand, chasing sign-offs over email, and the risk of errors that fail under audit. Climatise offers transparent pricing (per active client for providers) and reuses one dataset across ESOS, SECR, and UK SRS, so the same data-gathering serves three obligations instead of being repeated three times.
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