The article below is from the Retail moves.com website
UK retailers may soon be required to show how much energy they are using in order to boost knowledge of carbon emissions.
The British Property Federation (BPF), which represents commercial landlords in the UK, has been calling on the government to introduce display energy certificates (DEC) in shops and offices – and now the pressure may have paid off.
Politicians have agreed to consult on the matter in response to the recently-published Committee on Climate Change’s First Progress Report.
At present, DECs only have to appear in buildings that are occupied by institutions providing a public service to a large number of people and have a total useful floor area of more than 1,000 square metres.
Patrick Brown, Assistant Director for Sustainability at BPF, said the organisation welcomes the government’s announcement.
“Building up energy performance data on buildings would allow us to easily benchmark and compare properties and would also give the public a greater insight into how well their own offices or chosen retailers are performing,” he explained.
