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(18KB) (11KB) (27KB)In response to this consultation, RSA CarbonLimited is looking at downstream (personal) carbon trading as a means of reducing overall carbon emissions. This could be a very effective way of encouraging individual behaviour to change. The RSA believes that providing information on domestic customers' energy bills would encourage greater responsibility among individuals for their energy use.
As way of background, in a three-year project, the RSA CarbonLimited is exploring the potential for personal carbon trading and its more immediate precursors through research, open public discourse and co-ordinating trial schemes and prototypes. We have had quite a lot of contact with a number of officials and politicians. For instance, the RSA, Defra and Tesco have been working on a "Carbon Calculator" project in schools. In addition, Rt Hon David Miliband MP, Secretary of State for the Environment, attended and spoke at the public launch of the RSA project at the BT Tower in September 2006. He has since referred several times to the project publically and spoke of the possible benefits of personal carbon trading.
The RSA are proposing the first trial of a personal carbon trading card. This will provide real evidence on the technological feasibility of implementing a personal carbon trading scheme, something for which the government are currently envisaging a five to seven year lead time.
I thought you may find a brief note on the project interesting, given the issues discussed in this consultation. If you have any queries or would like to discuss further, please do not hesitate to contact me.
On behalf of TAHI, 'The Application Home Initiative', I am attaching our response to the Energy Billing & Consultation review.
TAHI is an independent group of organisations primarily from commerce, research and technology specialists and universities that are promoting the need for solutions in the home to be 'Interoperable'. TAHI's specialist sub-group, The Energy & Sustainability Working Group, which comprises a broad range of interested parties within the 'Energy' field, have reviewed the Consultation and we are pleased to submit this response. TAHI has also undertaken two trials with DTI support from the period 2002 to 2005, both of which addressed the impact of providing immediate, up-to-date information to consumers on their Energy & Water consumption. It is doubtful if any other organisation has this level of understanding of the potential benefits to consumers of the improvements that can be obtained through technology.
We would like to thank the DTI, Ofgem and Defra for giving us the opportunity to provide comments on the future 'Energy Billing & Metering' scenario.
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