Carbon Trust’s Energy Saving Recommendations
By the year 2020, commercial buildings can reduce their carbon emissions by a third, according to the Carbon Trust.
They suggest that a net benefit of £4 billion pounds could be made by using energy efficient measures on all commercial buildings in the UK.
The Confederation of British Industry’s recent survey revealed that a number of businesses are already implementing energy efficient measures to help reduce their carbon footprint and lower costs. In the past year one-third of businesses have switched their energy supplier.
Installation of lighting and heating controls are recommendations for achieving these targets. After the year 2020, the installation of ground source heat pumps and triple glazing would be standard also.
Head of building strategy at Carbon Trust, Stuart Farmer, said, “ Commercial and public buildings offer the UK a big bang for its carbon reduction buck. But it won’t just happen on its own; energy efficiency needs to be the first and second priority.” He added that measures need to be put in place so that the UK reaches its carbon reduction commitment. This would include a programme in which energy suppliers would “install simple, low cost energy efficiency measures in SME buildings.”