MOD3327 - UK Energy Consumption: Sustainability Issues & Business

This presentation provides an overview of energy consumption in the UK, highlighting key sectors such as households, businesses, and industries. It identifies major sustainability challenges, including lack of awareness, power storage issues, high installation costs, and the absence of robust government policies and subsidies. The presentation also discusses how businesses can support sustainability efforts by collaborating with government authorities, spreading awareness, offering remote work options, and minimizing waste. The conclusion emphasizes the need to reduce energy consumption to maintain environmental sustainability, referencing academic sources to support its points. Desklib offers this presentation and many more resources for students.

Sustainability and Energy
Consumption

Table of Contents
 Introduction
 Energy Consumption in UK
 Primary sectors of energy consumption in UK
 Major issues or challenges in Sustainability
 Support from businesses in reducing the negative impact of energy consumption
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
Sustainability is basically determined as maintaining
an ecological balance in environment. For instance,
it includes minimising waste of resources by
ensuring optimum utilisation of resources in
carrying out particular operations and activities. In
addition to that, there are various factors associated
with sustainability in environment including
Human, Social, Environment, and economic which
result in impacting upon measures raised towards
maintaining sustainability.

Energy Consumption in UK
Energy consumption is generally referred to use of energy in carrying out any specific
operation or activity in personal as well as professional routines or schedules. For
instance, UK is among major economic nations with highest consumption of energy
resources in their households as well as industrial use.

Primary sectors of
energy consumption in
UK
 Household
 Businesses
 Industries

Major issues or challenges in Sustainability
 In maintaining sustainability in environment,
there are various issues and challenges that
impact upon measures and precautions raised
against the same. In order to move further,
these issues and challenges are as follows:
 Lack of Awareness
 Power Storage
 High cost of installation
 Lack of government policies and subsidies

Support from businesses in reducing the
negative impact of energy consumption
 Collaboration with government authorities
 Spreading awareness and knowledge
 Offering remote work to maximum
possible extent
 Minimising wastage

Conclusion
From the mentioned report presentation, it could be concluded that there is a huge
necessity for reducing the consumption of energy or power in order to maintain
sustainability in environment. For instance, Households, Businesses, and industrial
sector are determined as major sector with maximum consumption of energy or power
in their routine operations and activities. Lack of Awareness, Power Storage, High cost
of installation, and Lack of government policies and subsidies are determined as major
issues or challenges associated with maintaining sustainability in environment.

References
 Francescomarino, C. and Maggi, F.M., 2020. Preface to the Special Issue on Artificial
Intelligence for Business Process Management 2018.
 Gagne, M. and et. al., 2021. Family business succession: What’s motivation got to do
with it?. Family Di Business Review. 34(2). pp.154-167.
 Mohamed, Z. and et. al.,2020. Attracting Inward Foreign Direct Investment: An Analysis
on E-government Practices and Ease of Doing Business among Countries in the ASEAN
Region. Contemporary Economics. 14(4). pp.532-542.

Thank You