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Departmental Headquarters real time energy and water use

Eland House is the headquarters building for the Department for Communities and Local Government, in Victoria, London.

Real time energy use

The Department is working in partnership with Schneider Electric to provide public access to Eland House's energy consumption. Their external site provides a reporting tool whereby you will be able to view actual gas, electricity and water consumption, the associated costs and carbon emissions over different periods of time (see link at top right).

From this website raw energy consumption data (gas and electricity - kWh and CO2) are available to download in a comma-separated variable (csv) format.

To view other government departments' energy data, see 'data.gov.uk' in related links, top right.

Data

The system at the Department operates in such a way that data from our main utility meters (electricity, gas and water) is captured and collected continuously. At the end of each day this data is collated and then downloaded onto the monitoring website by 2pm the following day. The continual capture of data allows us to monitor how much energy and water we are using each day, week, month etc.

Energy reports

To generate a report:

• Click total consumption in the left-hand menu (this will be highlighted in green)
• Click Reports - Consumption in the top tool bar
• Select the data period (insert dates in the 'Date From' and 'Date To' fields)
• Select Utility type: Electricity or Gas (kWh); Electricity and Gas (CO 2 or kWh); or Water (m 3 )
• Select Interval: Daily/Weekly etc
• Click the Add/+ icon
• Graph will be generated
• Clicking the download button will produce a raw data report.

Units, cost and CO 2

You can select the units you wish the data to be displayed, e.g. kWh, m 3 and CO 2 (carbon emissions). Select cost overlay to see the cost of consumption.

Data extraction

Comma-separated variable (CSV) format files can be generated by clicking the CSV Download button.

Cost rates

The costs shown have been calculated using the following rates:    

• Electricity: 7 pence per kWh
• Natural gas: 1.5 pence per kWh
• Water: 1.15 pence per m 3

Carbon factors

Conversion factors are based on Defra and Carbon Trust 2009 guidance:

• Electricity: 0.544 kg CO 2 per kWh 
• Natural gas: 0.184 kg CO 2 per kWh
• Water: 0.276 kg CO 2 per litre

About Eland House

The Department's headquarters building, Eland House, was built in 1995. It has a net internal area of 23,000 m 2 . It has 10 floors plus a basement. The building houses approximately 2,000 staff and includes a large kitchen/cafeteria. Comfort cooling is provided by chilled beams and heating by traditional gas fired boilers.

Enquiries

The Department is happy to respond to any questions you have regarding its energy data and carbon reduction work. Please email sustainableoperations@communities.gsi.gov.uk.