Given the cost increases to the residents of each local authority, there is a huge public interest in accountability of ALL public sector energy usage & energy costs across all Local authorities, all Government departments and all publicly funded or linked organisations which fall within freedom of disclosure requests. For the avoidance of doubt, disclosure of energy kwh usages falls firmly within the EIR 2004 regulations, and the cost disclosure fall within your normal cost spend disclosure as stated on your public facing website disclosures and so there is nothing which could be considered as a valid ROI exemption nor could claim to be commercially sensitive etc.

We formally request data you hold, and which is already or will be in the public domain;

1. For the year to 31-Mar-25 for all sites within your control, we please require the below to be disclosed:
a) Organisation Name: Wokingham Borough Council.

b) Your grid Electricity kwh’s consumed & the £-value spent excl-vat?
Elec 10Mwh £3.5million

c) The natural Gas kwh’s consumed & the £-value spent excl-vat?
Gas 21.8MWh £1.3million

d) Please do also indicate if the electricity is classed as or % from renewable sources or traditional Brown?
We are unable to answer this question. Energy Mix is complex and it would be time consuming to assess and some clarification would be required. The term ‘renewable’ is not straight forward - some suppliers class nuclear as green thus we would be unable to assess true percentage of renewable without further clarification on this point in order to confirm with our supplier.