Enigin Update - Government Departments hit and miss Energy Reductions
YESTERDAY marked the end of the UK Government’s month long challenge to reduce its own energy across many of its ministries and departments.
Launched on October 1, the Whitehall energy efficiency competition pitted departments against each other.
The results revealed that the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) performed best.
According to the latest figures, the DWP cut its energy use by 19 per cent, followed by the Department for Business, Industry and Skills (down 7 per cent). Also making cuts where the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), the Home Office, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), the Treasury and the Department for Transport.
The Department of Housing actually increased its energy usage by 16 per cent, with other energy hungry department including the Departments of Culture, Media and Sport (12 per cent) and the Department of Communities and Local Government (CLG).
UK Prime Minister David Cameron promised at the start of his term of office to cut energy use by 10% across all his government departments by next summer, but in a rather embarrassing revelation the Prime Minster’s own department, as it were, Number 10 Downing Street, has been one of the worst performers with a 10 per cent increase in energy use.
UK Climate Change Minister Greg Barker said:
“Government cannot ask people to reduce their emissions without cutting our own emissions,
“But this is only the beginning and everyone needs to keep up the pace if we are to reduce emissions on the government estate by 10%.”
Going forward, DECC and three other departments will be testing energy-saving technologies, in collaboration with the Technology Strategy Board. The Technology Strategy Board and DECC will be investing £2 million in nine pilot projects to trial technologies including LED lighting.
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