The UK Government has announced plans to record the energy consumption and efficiency of every building in England and Wales.
In its business plan published this week, the Department of Energy and Climate Change confirmed it was creating a huge new database that would log energy consumption, installed energy efficiency measures and housing type for every domestic and non-domestic property in the two nations.
The National Energy Efficiency Data (NEED) scheme is designed to analyse energy consumption and help cut carbon emissions and will be made available to companies and households.
In its newly published business report, the Whitehall department confirmed: “DECC is creating a new national data set of domestic and non-domestic properties in England and Wales.
“Called NEED (National Energy Efficiency Data framework) it combines at property level data on annual electricity and gas consumption, housing type, installed energy efficiency measures, and socio-demographic indicators for around 4 million properties since 2004.
“NEED will be a key tool in supporting action on energy efficiency and reducing emissions through the Green Deal. First, as an analytical tool for Government, NEED should dramatically improve our understanding of what drives energy consumption, and improve the impact of policies and focussing of delivery, alongside aggregated data.
“We will look to share the data within NEED – at an appropriate level of aggregation to preserve anonymity – with communities, firms and households to support decision making at a local level and unlock barriers to behaviour change.”
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