FOI request (FOIR-218997165)

Gas and Electricity

Requested Fri 19 June 2020
Responded  Wed 15 July 2020

1. Please confirm your current supplier for Gas and Electricity.

2. When do the current contracts expire for each?

3. If looking to save costs on these, who is responsible for the project?

4. How many sites is this person responsible for?

Response

Q1 - Our gas supplier is Total gas and our electricity supplier is NPower.

Q2 - Both contracts expire on 30 September 2020 and we are two thirds the way through agreeing new contracts.

Q3 - Hastings Borough Council has an Energy Development and Sustainability Service that has an input to supplier selection. We have been a member of an energy buying consortium known as the Local Authority South East Region (LASER) who provide a managed service.

Q4 - The Chief Auditor is responsible for the contracts through LASER. We have 3 main sites; Town Hall, Muriel Matters House and the Cemetery and Crematorium and we have about another 80 smaller sites such as public conveniences and car parks etc.