FOI request (FOIR-697090268)

Electricity half-hourly and natural gas supplied portfolio

Requested Tue 18 March 2025
Responded Thu 20 March 2025

We formally request under the FOI 2000 Act and EIR 2004 Regulations data you hold, and which is already or will be in the public domain relating to your electricity half-hourly and natural gas supplied portfolio.

1. For the period November 2024 which was invoiced by the supplier to you in December, we please require disclosure:

a. For your half-hourly meter portfolio, the grid Electricity (kWh) consumed and the £-value spent excluding VAT?

b. The natural Gas (kWh) consumed and the £-value spent excluding VAT?

Please do also indicate if the electricity is classed as being Green or Brown?

Given the cost increases to the residents of each local authority, there is a huge public interest in accountability of all public sector energy usage and energy costs across all Local authorities, all Government departments and all publicly funded or linked organisations which fall within freedom of disclosure requests. For the avoidance of doubt, because disclosure of energy kWh usages falls firmly within the EIR 2004 regulations, and the costs fall within your normal cost spend disclosure as stated on your public facing website disclosures anyway, then there is nothing which could be considered as a valid FOI exemption nor could claim to be commercially sensitive.

Response

1a. Half hourly electricity portfolio: 39,744 kWh used in November 2024 - £13,649.40 excluding VAT - Green Electricity tariff

1b. Gas portfolio: 125,292 kWh used in November 2024 - £7,693 excluding VAT.