Our energy use

Government departments are currently competing to save carbon emissions and meet environmental and sustainability pledges. From April 2025, the UKSC will publish information on the amount of energy our building uses.

Carbon saving initiatives

We are making better use of lighting by:

switching off unnecessary lights in meeting rooms

modifying meeting room lights to function on motion sensors

reducing the response time of motion sensors on office floors

reducing unnecessary lighting

We are targeting computer energy use by:

removing all single-side printing local printers

using green default features for PCs, monitors, faxes and printers to save power

trying out a space temperature policy

using our boilers efficiently

We are also only operate building machinery during staff working hours and switch it off over the weekends.