Dear Hannah Jewell

We acknowledge receipt of your email to Nottinghamshire County Council:

electricity sources in relation to climate action for the Council Climate
Action Scorecards

If you have submitted a request under the Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) or the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR), your request
will be considered and you will receive our response within the statutory
timescale of 20 working days.

The reference number for your email is FOI/1810.

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Yours sincerely

Complaints and Information
Chief Executive's Department
Nottinghamshire County Council
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Dear Hannah

Provision of requested information – Ref: FOI/00001810

Thank you for your request for information about our electricity tariffs
and renewable electricity generation, which we received on 16 January
2023.  Your request has been considered under the Environmental
Information Regulations 2004 (EIR).

The information you requested is:

I would like information about your council’s electricity sources in
relation to climate action for the Council Climate Action Scorecards. This
information may be held by an estates department or similar.

In particular, please supply me with information relating to the following
questions:

a. Does the council have a 100% renewable green electricity tariff for all
of the electricity that the council is directly responsible for, and is
this tariff with Green Energy UK plc, Good Energy Limited or Ecotricity?

This includes all electricity that the council is directly responsible
for, in council offices and any other buildings leased and managed by the
council where the council pays the electricity tariff. This does not
include homes owned or managed by the council. If unsure, please state
your provider and tariff.

The council has opted for a ‘zero carbon for business’ tariff from our
electricity provider for electricity the council is responsible for and
does not use the above named suppliers.

b. Does the council generate and use energy from waste? And if so, what
percentage of the council’s total electricity use is powered by these
energy from waste electricity sources?

The Council utilises third party commercial energy from waste for waste
treatment but does not purchase energy (through Private Wire, Sleaving
etc) from these or other EFW or Energy Recovery Facilities.

c. Does the council buy directly from a local renewable electricity source
or have its own renewable electricity sources? And if so, what percentage
of the council's total electricity use is powered by this/these renewable
electricity sources?

This includes council owned renewable electricity sources that are located
outside of the council area, such as solar farms located further south to
maximise electricity generation.

The council has its own PV solar arrays on corporate property, VIA East
Midlands and Inspire Library sites throughout Nottinghamshire.  The sites
generated approx. 855,722 kWh in 2021/2022. This was 7.9 % of total
electricity usage excluding street highway lights (20,271,342 kWh) and
school sites.  If you include highways street lighting it is 2.7 % of
total electricity usage.

Most of the information that we provide in response to environmental
information requests will be subject to copyright protection.  In most
cases the copyright will be owned by Nottinghamshire County Council.  The
copyright in other information may be owned by another person or
organisation, and this will be indicated on the information itself.

You are free to use any information supplied to you for non-commercial
research or private study purposes.  The information may also be used for
any other purpose allowed by a limitation or exception in copyright law,
such as news reporting.  However, any other type of re-use, for example by
publishing the information in analogue form, including on the internet,
will require permission of the copyright owner.

For information where the copyright is owned by Nottinghamshire County
Council details of the conditions on re-use can be found on our website at
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Your privacy: we use your personal information such as name and address so
that we can comply with our legal obligations to respond to EIR requests. 
For further details about the use of information about you, please see the
information handling privacy notice on our website at
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If you are unhappy with the way the authority has handled your request you
may ask for an internal review.  Please contact: Complaints and
Information – Team Manager, Nottinghamshire County Council, County Hall,
Loughborough Road, West Bridgford, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 7QP or
[3][Nottinghamshire County Council request email], who will arrange an internal review of your case.

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision.  The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information
Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, WILMSLOW, SK9 5AF or
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If you have any queries about this email, please contact me.

Yours sincerely

Colin Sawers

Information Case Officer | Complaints and Information Team

Chief Executive’s Department | Nottinghamshire County Council

County Hall | Loughborough Road | West Bridgford | NOTTINGHAM | NG2 7QP

Tel: (0115) 977 3714

Nottinghamshire County Council is committed to protecting your privacy and
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Nottinghamshire County Council Legal Disclaimer.  

Emails and any attachments from Nottinghamshire County Council are
confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the
sender immediately by replying to the email, and then delete it without
making copies or using it in any other way. Senders and recipients of
email should be aware that, under the Data Protection Act 2018 and the
Freedom of Information Act 2000, the contents may have to be disclosed in
response to a request.  
 
Although any attachments to the message will have been checked for viruses
before transmission, you are urged to carry out your own virus check
before opening attachments, since the County Council accepts no
responsibility for loss or damage caused by software viruses. 

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