Energy: EU Law

(asked on 3rd February 2017) - 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 his Department has made of (a) savings to UK consumers and (b) reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from the implementation of the Eco Design and Energy Product Directives in (i) each of the last three years and (ii) in each year up to 2030.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 13th February 2017

Estimates of the impact on energy bills of measures under the Ecodesign Directive and Energy Labelling Directive (referred to as “Products Policy”) are set out in Tables D1-D13 in Annex D here:

http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/384404/Prices__Bills_report_2014.pdf

Estimated UK emissions savings, including those due to Products Policy, are also published here in Annex D of the ‘Updated energy and emissions projections: 2015’:

http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/updated-energy-and-emissions-projections-2015

The estimated emissions savings due to Products Policy measures agreed so far are presented in the “All, by sector” spreadsheet within Annex D.

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