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The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has collected and published energy consumption data within the Digest of UK Energy Statistics since 1948. Over recent years there has been a greater focus on more detailed information to help support policy development. To support this, DECC has created the National Energy Efficiency Data-Framework (NEED). This a data framework made up of data from difference sources. Annual gas and electricity consumption data are matched, at an individual property level, with information about energy efficiency measures installed at the property and property attributes. The Framework was first announced in the Heat and Energy Saving Strategy in 2009 and was developed by DECC in order to assist DECC in its business plan priority to 'save energy with the Green Deal and support vulnerable consumers'. It forms a key element of DECC's evidence base supporting DECC to: develop, monitor and evaluate key policies; identify energy efficiency potential which sits outside the current policy framework; develop a greater understanding of the drivers of energy consumption; and gain a deeper understanding of the impacts of energy efficiency measures for households and businesses. Regular outputs from NEED are published by DECC and available on the gov.uk National Energy Efficiency Data-Framework (NEED) webpage. The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has also made an anonymised version of the dataset available for analysis by a wider audience to help support these aims. The anonymised dataset includes meter point gas and electricity consumption data; information on energy efficiency of households including measures installed; and property attributes. This is available on the gov.uk National Energy Efficiency Data-Framework (NEED): anonymised data webpage.

Main Topics:

Energy efficiency; energy consumption; households in England and Wales; NEED; National Energy Efficiency Data-Framework

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