Local Authority Electricity Generation Assets
Dear Vale of White Horse District Council,
In order to assist my research into Local Authorities who generate and export electricity from their own energy assets I would be grateful if you could answer the following questions. I am particularly looking at grid connected assets for example solar farms, wind turbines and waste to energy plants, rather than rooftop solar installations which mostly supply electricity to the building they occupy. I’d be grateful if you could answer the following questions: -
1) Do you own or operate electricity generation assets which export to the grid?
2) If so, what technologies? And are they ‘co-located’? E.g., a solar farm with a battery.
3) How much electricity (in kWh) would you expect to be exported, per asset, per year?
4) When were the assets 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) Does your local authority have any plans in place to acquire, build or invest in electricity generation assets in the future?
Many thanks,
Rebecca Brown
Dear Rebecca Brown
Thank you for your Freedom of Information/Environmental Information
Regulation request, which was received by Vale of White Horse District
Council on 9 February 2023.
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The deadline for this will be 9 March 2023
The reference number for this request is Vale 22/1226
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Dear Rebecca,
Thank you for your requests for information under the Environmental
Information Regulations (2004), which were received by both South
Oxfordshire District Council (logged under 22/1371 SOUTH) and Vale of
White Horse District Council (logged under 22/1226 VALE). Please note
that the two councils operate as a shared service hence this joint
response.
Under Part 2 Regulation 5 of the Environmental Information Regulations
2004, you are entitled to information which is in the authority’s
possession or is held by another person on behalf of the authority unless
any exceptions apply (Part 3 Regulation 12).
I have considered your request and can confirm we do hold some of the
information asked and I do not believe any of the statutory exemptions
apply to your request. Please find below the information you requested
(where available):
1. Do you own or operate electricity generation assets which export to
the grid?
No
2. If so, what technologies? And are they ‘co-located’? E.g., a solar
farm with a battery.
n/a
3. How much electricity (in kWh) would you expect to be exported, per
asset, per year?
n/a
4. When were the assets commissioned?
n/a
5. What is the current contractual arrangement to sell the power, to whom
is it sold and what is the contract end date?
n/a
6. Does your local authority have any plans in place to acquire, build or
invest in electricity generation assets in the future?
Yes, action L3 in South Oxfordshire District Council’s Climate Action Plan
and in Vale of White Horse District Council’s Climate Action Plan commits
us to preparing a business case and, if approved, implement a local
renewable energy project, such as a solar farm, to address unavoidable
council emissions. Both councils are currently considering the feasibility
of investment on council owned land.
Please treat this as the councils’ formal response to your Environmental
Information Regulation request. If you are not satisfied with the
response we have provided to your request, under Environmental Information
Regulation 11, you may make a request for an internal review within 40
working days of receiving this response by emailing
[1][email address] and [2][Vale of White Horse District Council request email]. If you remain
dissatisfied after following that procedure, you have the right to
complain to the Information Commissioner. You can contact the Commissioner
at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF (telephone
number: 0303 123 1113). You can also find further information at
[3]www.ico.org.uk.
Jessie Fieth
Senior Climate Action Officer
Policy and Programmes
South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils
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