CSE publishes full UK public building energy data

Business & Leadership
March 8, 2011

The Centre for Sustianable Energy (CSE) has published the full Display Energy Certificate (DEC) Register for all UK public buildings, making it publicly available in one place for the first time.

Included in the information are the address, floorspace, heat and power consumption, carbon emissions, and energy efficiency rating of 40,000 sites. Previously, the information could only be obtained for one building at a time, and only in PDF format, causing major issues for conducting accurate strategic assessments and estate-wide analysis.

CSE attained the data from the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) under the Environmental Information Regulations, building on the efforts of BBC journalist Martin Rosenbaum who obtained a partial dataset in 2009....