Energy Efficiency Targets (Hansard, 2 February 1994)

§ Mr. Gummer

I have called for a partnership between Government, business and the voluntary sector to help the United Kingdom meet its CO² emission reduction targets. As part of that, I have urged all organisations to set up proper environmental and energy management systems, including the setting of clear targets and systems to monitor performance and report against those targets.

Much remains to be done both by business and the public sector in this area, but I welcome the lead given by the organisations listed which, as signatories of the marking a corporate commitment campaign, have published energy efficiency targets and are working to secure the commercial and environmental benefits that result from good energy management. I hope others will follow this lead.

The public sector is also playing its part. Central Government and health authorities and trusts are working to meet a 15 per cent. cut in energy consumption in the five years 1991–96; while the local authority associations are promoting similar aspirational targets for individual local authorities.

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IBM:	A worldwide corporate goal of implementing energy efficient improvement projects to achieve 4 per cent, savings year on year;
J. Sainsbury plc:	A target of a 5 per cent. annual saving on the difference between actual energy used and the predicted energy which should have been if utilised in the most efficient manner;
Nationwide Building Society:	A 15 per cent. target over five years with the expectation that this could be increased to 20 to 25 per cent, in the longer term;
National Westminster Bank plc:	A 15 per cent. reduction in energy consumption by the end of 1995;
Rockware Glass Ltd.:	Co₂ emissions in 2000 will not exceed 1992 values;
Rover Group:	A 5 per cent. per annum reduction in 1991 energy and Co₂ levels adjusted for the number of standard production hours worked and degree days during the year;
Safeway Stores plc:	A real saving of at least 10 per cent. over five years;
Sterling Organics:	A programme of improvement projects which will reduce energy consumption by 6 per cent, in the two years ending 1994, against a baseline of 1992;
Tesco plc:	A further 5 per cent. reduction in energy use in each of the next two years;
Texaco Ltd.:	Improve the energy index at its Pembroke refinery by 1 per cent. each year over the next five years; and save 15 per cent. of its energy consumption in its headquarters building in 1994;
Toshiba (Manufacturing Operations):	A 16 per cent. improvement in energy use by 1995;
Warwick International Ltd.:	A 20 per cent. improvement in energy use per unit of product produced in 1993 and 1994;
University College London:	A 15 per cent. reduction in effective energy use over five years to 1998.
Electricity Companies
Man web plc:	A 10 per cent. reduction in own electricity use in the three years to 1994 95;
Norweb plc:	A 15 per cent. reduction in own electricity consumption over five years to 1996;
Northern Electric plc:	To reduce own energy usage by one third over the next five years;
Nuclear Electric plc:	A 5 per cent. reduction in overall energy bill in 1993;
Southern Electric plc:	A 20 per cent. reduction in energy consumption in office buildings over the next five years.
Local Authorities
Basingstoke and Dean Borough Council:	15 per cent. reduction in effective energy use in five years to 1998;
Bedfordshire County Council:	15 per cent. reduction in energy costs over five years to 1991 and then 10 per cent, by 2000;
Cleveland County Council:	7.5 per cent. for educational establishments while Cleveland police authority has set a target of 10 per cent, over one year for its buildings;
Cotswold District Council:	15 per cent. over five years to 1997;
Ipswich Borough Council:	15 per cent. over five years to 1998;
Leicester City Council:	To complement a 14 per cent. reduction in Co₂ emissions over the past five years, the council intend to reduce Co₂ emissions by 50 per cent. of the 1990 level by the year 2025;
London Borough of Hounslow:	To reduce 1992 energy consumption by 20 per cent. by the end of 1997, with consequent Co₂ emission reductions in excess of 20 per cent., by investing 10 per cent. of the annual energy budget in a programme of building and plant improvements, and by encouraging and implementing responsible energy management measures;
London Fire and Civil Defence Authority:	A 10 per cent. reduction in energy consumption over five years to 1994–95.
London Borough of Sutton:	4 per cent. energy savings in this financial year and a 15 per cent. saving over 10 years.
Northamptonshire County Council:	To reduce energy and water consumption and CO₂ emissions by a further 15 per cent. over five years commencing April 1994;
Nottingham City Council:	A 10 per cent. reduction in energy consumption by 1994–95; a further 5 per cent. by 1996–97 with up to a 50 per cent. reduction by the year 2027;
Oxfordshire County Council:	On course to reduce their energy use in council buildings by 15 per cent. over the five years to 1998;
Redditch Borough Council:	A 15 per cent. reduction in energy costs over three years to 1995;
Stratford on Avon District Council:	A 5 per cent. reduction in the 1992–93 level of normalised energy consumption by March 1995;

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Suffolk Coastal District Council:	Following cumulative reductions to date of some 5,000 tonnes of Co₂, emissions, the council intends to reduce energy consumption by a further 10 per cent. in the five years to 1998;
West Sussex County Council:	A Co₂, reduction target of 50,000 tonnes per year by 2000;
Woking Borough Council:	A 20 per cent. reduction in energy consumption in five years to 1998.