Below you can find:
- useful information and links to do with energy
- funding opportunities
- details of public sector buying organisations
- Power factor correction for unmetered supplies Opens in a new window
(237KB) An environmental discussion document prepared by the Yorkshire and Lancashire Lighting Engineers Group. - Electricity Central Online Enquiry Service. A web based viewer enabling various parties to check Meter Point Administration Numbers (MPANs), Meter Serial Numbers, addresses and other data such as contact details, registration history, related metering points, and date of meter installation.
- Sustainable Procurement Task Force report. The National Action Plan of the Sustainable Procurement Task Force: 'Procuring the Future', which delivered its findings and recommendations on 12 June 2006. Energy is one of the priority areas identified in the report.
- DECC report: UK Energy in Brief July 2009. Latest statistics on energy production, consumption and prices in the UK.
- OGC Top Business Utility Saving Assets Opens in a new window(39KB)
- Open standards in utility billing by utilities Opens in a new window (180KB). Document produced by the Energy Systems and Trade Association (ESTA).
- Implementing Delivery Mechanisms for Financing London's Low Carbon Future Opens in a new window (3.7MB). London Energy Partnership report on financing London's move to a low carbon economy.
- 1E Public Sector Portal
Web portal offering public sector organisations access to pan-government procurement of PC power management and other IT software solutions and services. - Energy Measures Report
This 2007 report published by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform sets out the steps local authorities can take to improve energy efficiency, increase levels of microgeneration and low carbon technologies, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce fuel poverty. - Partnerships for Renewables
This Carbon Trust enterprise works with the public sector to develop and manage onsite renewable energy projects.
- Energy Saving Trust funding database. The database contains a range of energy efficiency and renewable energy grants from a variety of organisations.
- Low Carbon Buildings Programme Phase 2. Grants for the installation of microgeneration technologies are available to public sector buildings (including schools, hospitals, housing associations and local authorities) and charitable bodies. Applications are now being accepted.
- Salix Finance. Funding for public sector projects to reduce carbon emissions.
- Making energy efficiency and low carbon improvements Opens in a new window (139KB). This document details approaches to energy effeciency measures and low carbon improvements, and identifies funding opportunities.
Public Sector Buying Organisations
Below is a list of links to the major public sector energy procurers and consortia:
