FOI request (FOI221863)

Electricity Consumption and Public Lighting

Requested Thu 19 October 2017
Responded Thu 19 October 2017

Part 1

a.       Please provide a breakdown of the total amount of electricity consumed (in kWh) by your authority (for example, on local authority-owned buildings and services) for the year 2012 through to 2016 (or the most recently available five-year period).

Part 2

a.       Please provide a breakdown of the total expenditure (in GBP) on electricity used by your authority (for example, on local authority-owned buildings and services) for the year 2012 through to 2016 (or the most recently available five-year period).

b.       Please provide a breakdown of the total expenditure (in GBP) on all energy used by your authority (for example, on local authority-owned buildings and services) for the year 2012 through to 2016 (or the most recently available five-year period).

Part 3

a.       Please provide the proportion of the public lighting in your authority that is LED-based? (Please provide as a percentage and, if possible, the total number of LED and non-LED lights across the authority).

b.       Please provide the proportion of the public lighting in your authority that is connected LED lighting? By connected we mean lighting that is connected to allow features such as automated or remotely controlled adjustments to the lighting, data collection or integration with other systems in a building or town. (Please provide as a percentage and, if possible, the total number of connected LED lights across the authority).

Part 4

a.       Please provide the proportion of the electricity consumed by your authority (for example, on local authority-owned buildings and services) that comes from renewable sources.

Response

Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding:

Part 1 - Hastings Borough Council does not hold a breakdown of the requested information for financial years 2012/13 to 2015/16. We do hold this information for financial year 2016/17 (up to Feb 2017), as follows:

Electricity use: 2085 MWh
Gas use: 1690 MWh

Part 2 - Please see attached documents

Part 3 - Information not held

Part 4 - Information not held