Council electricity tariffs and renewable electricity generation

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Dear Somerset County Council,

Please treat this as a Freedom of Information/Environmental Information Regulations request.

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.

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?

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.

I look forward to hearing from you in due course.

Yours faithfully,

Hannah Jewell, Climate Emergency UK

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Dear  Ms Jewell
 
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Thank you for your request for information about  Climate Emergency  which
we received on 17 January 2023 .
 
I need to advise you that for ease of administration we have merged your
requests into a single request.

We are currently dealing with your request under the  Environmental
Information Regulations 2004  and we aim to send our response to you on or
before 14 February 2023 .  
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Jo Adams
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Information request
Our reference: 10558058
 

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Dear Ms Jewell
 
Environmental Information Regulations 2004
 
We are looking at the request but we need more time to process it. This
is   due to the amount of information you are asking us for and we require
more time. 
 
Please quote the reference number 10558058 in any future communications.
 
 

Yours sincerely

Tracey Crabb
Information Request Officer
 
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Dear  Ms Jewell
 
Thank you for your request for information received on  17 January 2023 .
 
Please find attached our response to your request.
 
Yours sincerely

Jo Adams
Data Protection and Information Request Officer
 
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