FOI request (FOIR-697337845)

Local Authority Utility-Scale Assets

Requested Tue 18 March 2025
Responded Thu 20 March 2025

I would be grateful if you can assist my research into Local Authorities who generate and export electricity from their own energy. I am particularly looking at utility-scale assets (for example, solar farms, wind turbines, and waste to energy plants) rather than small-scale, behind-the-meter assets (for example, rooftop solar installations). I would be grateful if you could answer the following questions:

1. Do you own or operate utility-scale electricity generation assets which export to the grid?

2. If so, what technologies? And are they 'co-located' (for example, a solar farm with a battery)?

3. How much electricity (in kWh) would you expect to be exported, from each asset, per year? And how much revenue would you expect to earn from the export in FY25/26?

4. When was each asset commissioned?

5. What is the current contractual arrangement to sell the power, to whom is it sold, and what is the contract end date?

6. Do you partake in any government subsidy scheme in relation to the electrical output from the asset? For example, Renewables Obligation Certificates (ROC) or Contracts for Difference (CfD).

7. Does your Local Authority have any plans in place to acquire, build or invest in electricity generation assets in the future?

Response

1. No

2. Not applicable

3. Not applicable

4. Not applicable

5. Not applicable

6. Not applicable

7. No