Energy and Climate Change written question – answered at on 5 January 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the level of carbon emissions was from (a) housing and (b) other buildings in respect of (i) heating and cooling, (ii) hot water, (iii) lighting , (iv) appliances and (v) other sources in the latest year for which figures are available.
For the UK household sector, total end-use emissions of carbon were just over 146.5 million tonnes of CO2 (MtCO2) in 2006, for which a breakdown of emissions per service is shown in Fig.1. Overall household sector carbon emissions in 2007 were just over 140.5 MtCO2,but the breakdown by service is not yet available for that year.
Fig.1: Household carbon emissions by service in 2006 | |
Service | MtCO 2 |
Space heating | 66.7 |
Water heating | 31.9 |
Cooking | 5.1 |
Lights appliances and cooling(1) | 41.8 |
(1) Of which lights contributed 8.4 MtCO2; appliances 33.4 MtCO2; and cooling 0.1 MtCO2 (indicative estimates). |
For non-domestic buildings, the most recent estimates available are for 2008. Fig.2 shows the breakdown of emissions per service. These figures, totalling 88.9 MtCO2, include all energy use in public and commercial buildings and energy use for space heating and lighting in industrial buildings.
Fig.2: Non-domestic carbon emissions by service in 2008 | |
Service | MtCO 2 |
Space heating and cooling | 42.7 |
Hot water | 4.7 |
Lighting | 22.7 |
Appliances | 11.5 |
Other | 7.3 |
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