Tom Greatrex – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

November 2, 2022 admin 2014, Parliamentary Question, Tom Greatrex

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Greatrex on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of his Department’s consumption in kWh of (a) gas and (b) electricity in each month since June 2010; and what the cost of such consumption has been in each such month.

Elizabeth Truss

The Department for Education has cut its annual energy bill by £1.4m since 2009-10 through reduced energy consumption, and has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 38% in the same period.

Emission reductions from energy use have largely been achieved through low and no cost energy efficiency measures, estate rationalisation (by using space more efficiently and co-locating with other organisations), and by operating our remaining buildings even more efficiently.

The Department’s monthly gas and electricity consumption and associated costs since June 2010 are set out below.

	Electricity kWh	Electricity Cost £	Gas kWh	Gas Cost £
Jun-10	1,164,652	85,441	133,998	£8,879
Jul-10	1,158,378	129,719	64,158	£9,054
Aug-10	1,019,308	120,186	17,736	£9,137
Sep-10	1,009,662	25,431	61,799	£1,789
Oct-10	972,048	81,233	168,543	*
Nov-10	955,120	73,194	341,850	£3,150
Dec-10	917,993	72,450	1,368,357	£1,318
Jan-11	924,050	68,914	502,246	£8,286
Feb-11	892,663	148,902	528,895	£5,817
Mar-11	923,772	87,202	492,273	£32,115
Apr-11	1,017,920	83,562	176,334	£14,114
May-11	1,091,733	56,831	157,050	£8,133
Jun-11	1,149,462	139,208	97,030	£11,247
Jul-11	1,128,281	93,764	56,856	£6,460
Aug-11	1,126,637	125,550	69,121	£1,501
Sep-11	1,117,836	101,759	96,013	£749
Oct-11	1,124,928	175,773	166,233	£6,537
Nov-11	1,117,066	120,616	541,299	£3,603
Dec-11	1,056,743	*	422,178	£15,183
Jan-12	1,115,270	231,972	504,487	£6,691
Feb-12	1,064,718	119,303	547,419	£16,000
Mar-12	1,145,769	116,169	402,004	£55,082
Apr-12	1,045,229	145,955	369,636	£14,405
May-12	1,141,570	26,511	253,486	*
Jun-12	1,020,091	102,484	107,956	£17,461
Jul-12	1,095,095	314,717	52,479	£31,834
Aug-12	1,111,575	161,023	21,057	£10,461
Sep-12	1,030,509	246,659	107,429	£7,395
Oct-12	1,115,679	122,926	402,196	£6,622
Nov-12	1,077,060	188,350	459,877	£42,443
Dec-12	1,028,372	7,344	562,851	*
Jan-13	1,121,535	150,753	695,526	£42,660
Feb-13	996,349	252,524	662,816	£40,218
Mar-13	1,064,972	194,770	622,653	£42,909
Apr-13	1,038,319	64,507	480,835	£61,685
May-13	1,025,212	13,813	355,353	£4,905
Jun-13	986,704	267,484	125,280	£37,910
Jul-13	1,152,464	129,589	63,823	£7,838
Aug-13	1,075,626	162,988	52,313	£5,566
Sep-13	1,026,536	126,590	91,021	£22,527
Oct-13	1,039,324	265,576	326,262	£6,066
Nov-13	1,003,941	148,285	336,372	£7,520
Dec-13	1,024,778	13,976	374,204	£16,265
Jan-14	1,046,875	241,727	536,348	£38,947
Feb-14	946,677	138,250	529,496	£12,458
Mar-14	934,054	133,878	302,627	£44,219
Apr-14	864,231	17,558	190,423	£18,783
May-14	899,711	226,815	251,680	£23,591

* Gaps in financial data are due to delayed billing cycles and inaccurate consumption estimates made by the supplier.

The core department’s electricity is purchased via the Crown Commercial Service energy framework from renewable sources, and is therefore, exempt from the Climate Change Levy.

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