We formally request under the FOI 2000 Act and EIR 2004 regulations data you hold, and which is already or will be in the public domain relating to your electricity half-hourly and natural gas supplied portfolio. 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, because disclosure of energy kwh usages falls firmly within the EIR 2004 regulations, and the costs fall within your normal cost spend disclosure as stated on your public facing website disclosures anyway, then there is nothing which could be considered as a valid ROI exemption nor could claim to be commercially sensitive.

1. For the period November 2024 which was invoiced by the supplier to you in December, we please require disclosure:
a) For your half-hourly meter portfolio, the grid Electricity kwh’s consumed & the £-value spent excluding VAT?
b) The natural Gas kwh’s consumed & the £-value spent excluding VAT?
c) Please do also indicate if the electricity is classed as being Green or Brown?

The Energy Manager has informed us that this information would be commercially sensitive (Section 43 of the FOI Act). They have advised that this information would provide competitors with information sensitive to the contract and would give them a competitive advantage in having those details. In short, this would reveal our pricing / pricing strategy which could enable parties to undercut prices on this.