Environmental Policy

NES is based in Milton Keynes at the National Energy Centre.

A key part of our environmental sustainability is, as you might expect, linked to our buildings.

There are two buildings on the site. Our offices were Phase I, opened in June 1999 and designed to be an exemplar showing that high energy efficiency can be designed as an integral part of a building without adding additional costs. This has been achieved by a careful combination of orientation, window design, high insulation levels and high thermal mass.

Phase II (the new office of the National Energy Foundation) was opened in February 2004 and demonstrates energy efficiency in a lower mass, timber-framed building. Its features include a ground source heat pump feeding underfloor heating, solar water heating, high insulation levels and PV solar panels.

The buildings are sited on two acres (0.81 hectare) and part of the site is used for demonstration energy crops such as short rotation willow and miscanthus.