The amount and cost of energy used by the Department and its agencies and as reported as part of the Sustainable Development in Government annual exercise for the last five years is as follows:
Consumption Kilowatt hour (kWh) 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 Fossil Fuel 6,228,420 4,836,970 4,846,690 5,437,549 5,348,821 Electricity 13,268,795 12,972,000 12,340,000 12,317,512 12,297620 Total 19,497,215 17,808,971 17,186,690 17,755,061 17,646,440 % renewable 68 72 71 67 68 Cost (£) 848,572 £1,038,918 £1,095,438 £1,006,072 £1,686,629
Consumption KWh 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 Fossil Fuel 455,509 513,790 547,914 589,362 418,320 Electricity 572,893 640,780 669,822 718863 720,143 Total 1,028,402 1,154,570 1,217,736 1,308,225 1,138,463 % renewable 47 55 54 54 63 Cost (£) 46,342 60,432 66,556 60,887 94,213 Note: All data is weather corrected, and has been processed by the Building Research Establishment and signed off as part of the Sustainable Development in Government exercise.
Central Government Departments and their Executive agencies are required to report performance data on the amount of energy sourced from renewable sources annually as part of the Sustainable Development in Government (SDiG) reporting process. The Government had a target to source at least 10 per cent of electricity from renewables by 31 March 2008, which it has already achieved. The latest assessment of Government's performance against this target was published by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) on the 18 December 2009, and is available on the OGC website
www.ogc.gov.uk/sustainability_programme_progress.asp
Information on reporting years prior to 2008-09 was collated and published by the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) can be found on the SDC website
www.sd-commission.org.uk
The information in this answer covers the Department's central administrative estate of Richmond House, Wellington House and Skipton House. The Department is a minor occupier in New Kings Beam House (HM Revenue and Customs) and Quarry House in Leeds (Department of Work and Pensions) and the data for these sites is not available to us. Reductions in 2005-06 and 2006-07 are due to the closure of one London building, Eileen House. From 2007-08, we included figures from our site in Nelson, Lancashire.
The data supplied for NHS PASA relates to energy used at their Reading, Chester and Sheffield sites. The Sheffield site was closed during 2007-08.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency are unable to provide electricity data for 2004-07 or gas data for 2004-09 as the information is not available from their landlord. This information has not been used for the energy efficiency part of the Sustainable Development in Government exercise, as the gas figures are unknown.
Consumption KWh 2007-08 2008-09 Fossil Fuel 1— 1— Electricity 1,672,16 4 1,697,914 Total 1,672,16 4 1.697,914 % renewable 0 0 Cost (£) 163,000 146,000 1 Not known 2 Budget figure