Dear Mr Dixon,

 

EIR request: EIR-2067

 

Thank you for your request dated 11/06/2024

 

Your request will be answered by 09/07/2024

 

If you have any queries about this request, please contact me, quoting the
reference number above.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

David White

Head of Information, Safety and Community Services

Directorate of Communities, Environment and Central

Royal Borough of Greenwich

 

*   3^rd Floor, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, London, SE18
6HQ

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Dear Mr Dixon,

 

EIR request: EIR-2067

Please accept our sincere apologies for a delay in providing a response to
your Freedom of Information request. We apologise for any inconvenience
this may cause. The service providing you with your response has been
chased today and they do remain committed to responding to your request as
soon as possible.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Freedom of Information Team

Directorate of Communities, Environment and Central

Royal Borough of Greenwich

 

*   3^rd Floor, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, London, SE18
6HQ

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From: foi <[Greenwich Borough Council request email]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2024 4:14 PM
To: 'Jamie Dixon' <[FOI #1138428 email]>
Cc: foi <[Greenwich Borough Council request email]>
Subject: EIR-2067: Freedom of Information request - Council solar energy
data

 

Dear Mr Dixon,

 

EIR request: EIR-2067

 

Thank you for your request dated 11/06/2024

 

Your request will be answered by 09/07/2024

 

If you have any queries about this request, please contact me, quoting the
reference number above.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

David White

Head of Information, Safety and Community Services

Directorate of Communities, Environment and Central

Royal Borough of Greenwich

 

*   3^rd Floor, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, London, SE18
6HQ

8 [2]www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk

 

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Dear Mr Dixon,

 

EIR request: EIR-2067

 

Thank you for your request dated 11/06/2024

 

Our response is as follows:

I am requesting the following information under the Freedom of Information
Act 2000. If any information is unavailable, exempt, or beyond time/cost
limits, please disregard these and provide the rest.

 

1. Are you on a green/renewable energy tariff for gas and electricity
supplies? Please answer individually for both. Yes for electricity, which
is sourced 41% from renewables. Nil for gas.

 

2. Do you have any renewable energy installations at council-owned
properties (both residential and commercial council-owned properties)? Yes

If yes, please list them and include their maximum capacity. Options might
include:

- Solar panels – Residential – total capacity ≈ 870 kWp

- Solar thermal panels – 7 houses + 85 flats

- Wind turbines – None

- Air source heat pump – 135 dwellings (individual ASHPs) and 4 blocks
(communal ASHPs)

- Ground source heat pump – 1 communal ground source heat pump serving 3
blocks

- Biomass systems – none

- Hydroelectric systems – none

- Other (please specify)

Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise and Skills response, as follows:

Yes, for the Commercial Estate we have both Solar PV and ASHP.  Capacity
information is provided within the attached spreadsheet, EIR-2067. We do
not have the capacity of the individual ASHP for all sites where they are
installed. It would take circa 2 hours per site to collect this
information, therefore a total of 48 hrs, which falls outside the
threshold for FOI requests, therefore the Council will not comply with
your request in accordance with section 12 of the Act which states:-

Section 12(1) does not oblige a local authority to comply with a request
for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with
the request would exceed the appropriate limit.

 

The Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and
Fees) Regulations 2004 (“the Fees Regulations) sets the appropriate limit
at £450 for the public authority in question. Under these Regulations, a
public authority can charge a maximum of £25 per hour for work undertaken
to comply with a request. This equates to 18 hours work.

 

A public authority is only required to provide a reasonable estimate or
breakdown of costs and in putting together its estimate it can take the
following processes into consideration:-

 

Determining whether it holds the information.

Locating the information, or a document which may contain the information.

Retrieving the information, or a document which may contain the
information, and

Extracting the information from a document containing it.

 

We have estimated the length of time it will take to do the following
tasks in accordance with section 12.

Determining whether we hold the information and locating the information,
or a document which may contain the information. We do hold the
information; however it is not held in an easily extractable format.

 

Retrieving and extracting the information.

To retrieve and extract the information one officer will have to look
through each site’s data, we estimate that this would take approximately
120 minutes to retrieve and extract the information. (120 minutes x 24
sites/60) = 48 hours.

Total hours to complete the request equates 48 hours.

 

We estimate that it will take one officer in excess of 18 hours to
determine the appropriate material and locate, retrieve and extract the
information in reference to your request. The council is not obliged to
comply with this request because it exceeds the appropriate limit.

 

Section 16 of the Act imposes an obligation on public authorities to
provide advice and assistance to a person making a request, so far as it
is reasonable to do so.

 

In order to provide you with advice and assistance we suggest you refine
your request by narrowing the timespan or scope of your request.

 

3. What percentage of commercial council-owned properties have solar
panels installed as of 2024 (if this year of data is unavailable, please
provide the percentage of commercial council-owned properties that have
solar panels installed as of 2023)? 2%

 

4. What percentage of residential council-owned properties have solar
panels installed as of 2024 (if this year of data is unavailable, please
provide the percentage of residential council-owned properties that have
solar panels installed as of 2023)? 19,100 total social housing
properties.

890 properties have solar PV installations (many of these are communal
arrays on residential blocks that do not supply the flats directly, which
inflates the percentage).

% of properties with solar arrays = 21%

 

5. What percentage of council-owned properties (both residential and
commercial council-owned properties) are powered 100% by sustainable
energy as of 2024 (if this year of data is unavailable, please provide the
percentage of council-owned properties that are powered 100% by
sustainable energy as of 2023)? – 0% for commercial properties. 

Directorate for Housing & Safer Communities response = We do not record
this information.

 

For residential council owned properties, we do not believe that this
question can be answered as we do not pay the bills for council owned
homes so have no way of knowing what supplier and type of tariff they are
on.

 

6. Do you have any fully electric vehicles in your fleet for staff use
(excluding hybrids)? If yes, how many? 

Fleet Services response = 30

Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise and Skills response, as follows:

7

 

7. Do you currently employ a staff member whose primary responsibility is
overseeing the implementation of sustainability strategies, such as a
“Sustainability Officer”? Yes, we have a Directorate for Housing & Safer
Communities response

Yes – we have a Housing Energy and Sustainability Manager with a team of
3, and a Principal Sustainability Officer with a team of 1.

 

Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise and Skills response, as follows:

Principal Sustainability Officer and an Energy and Sustainability Officer.

 

8. What eco-friendly initiatives are implemented across your council-owned
properties for your staff members to take part in? These could include
green transport solutions (e.g. bike schemes), recycling programs, etc.
Please describe them. All staff are required to contribute to the
achievement of the Council’s Carbon Neutral Plan from a service delivery
perspective, with some services more involved than others. Please check
the Action Plan on the Council’s website for a list of such initiatives.

 

9. What were the estimated annual savings on energy bills from using
renewable energy sources for the 2023 calendar year in GBP? – £10K

 

10. How much energy was sold back to the National Grid annually from your
renewable installations for the 2023 calendar year in kWh and GBP? Nil

 

If you have any queries about this correspondence, please contact me,
quoting the reference number above.

If you are not satisfied with our response to your request, you can ask
for an Internal Review.  Internal review requests must be submitted within
two months of the date of receipt of the response to your original
request.  If you wish to do this, please contact us in writing, setting
out why you are dissatisfied.

If you are not satisfied with the outcome of the Internal Review, you may
apply directly to the Information Commissioner (ICO) for a decision. 
Generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the
Internal Review procedure provided by the Council. You can contact the ICO
by emailing [1][email address], or by post at Customer Contact,
Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
SK9 5AF.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

David White

Head of Information, Safety and Community Services

Directorate of Communities, Environment and Central

Royal Borough of Greenwich

 

*   3^rd Floor, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, London, SE18
6HQ

8 [2]www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk

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From: foi <[Greenwich Borough Council request email]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2024 4:14 PM
To: 'Jamie Dixon' <[FOI #1138428 email]>
Cc: foi <[Greenwich Borough Council request email]>
Subject: EIR-2067: Freedom of Information request - Council solar energy
data

 

Dear Mr Dixon,

 

EIR request: EIR-2067

 

Thank you for your request dated 11/06/2024

 

Your request will be answered by 09/07/2024

 

If you have any queries about this request, please contact me, quoting the
reference number above.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

David White

Head of Information, Safety and Community Services

Directorate of Communities, Environment and Central

Royal Borough of Greenwich

 

*   3^rd Floor, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, London, SE18
6HQ

8 [3]www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk

 

ü Please consider the environment before printing this email

 

 

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