The Domestic National Energy Efficiency Data-Framework (NEED) combines domestic gas and electricity consumption with property and household information. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero publishes two anonymized samples, one with 4,000,000 properties and another with 50,000, designed to be representative of England and Wales. The dataset was last updated on 2026-06-11.
Use Cases
- Forecasting household energy demand based on property characteristics.
- Analyzing correlations between energy consumption and household demographics.
- Training models to identify energy efficiency improvement opportunities based on property data.
- Benchmarking energy performance across representative property samples.
Strengths
- Includes a large sample of 4,000,000 properties.
- Contains a smaller, more manageable sample of 50,000 properties.
- Samples are designed to be representative of domestic properties in England and Wales.
- Data is anonymized to protect individual household information.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count for the full dataset is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Collection Method
- Brings together information on domestic gas and electricity consumption with property and household data.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-11 08:58:28.657489
- Geography
- England and Wales