Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Energy

(asked on 24th September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the the average cost per KwH of energy used by his Department generated from (a) natural gas, (b) oil, (c) LPG, (d) electric direct heat and (e) air source heat pump.


Answered by
Kwasi Kwarteng Portrait
Kwasi Kwarteng
This question was answered on 29th September 2020

The average costs per kWh for the Department have been taken from 2019/20 invoices for our headquarters building at 1 Victoria Street, London and are shown in the table below.

The Department does not use LPG and does not currently have an air source heat pump at 1 Victoria Street.

Natural gas

Oil

Electric direct heat

£/kWh fuel

£0.04/kWh

£0.06/kWh

£0.13/kWh

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