2025 Action Scorecards

Question · Action Scorecards 2025

Does the council have a scheme to allow residents to purchase renewable energy cheaply, through collective buying?

Question code: 1.11
Section: Buildings & Heating
Topic: Renewable Energy purchasing schemes
Source: Volunteer Research
Question weight: Low

Criteria

Two-tier criteria
First tier criteria met if the council is running a Solar Streets or equivalent collective energy buying project.

Second tier criteria met if the council is running a Solar Together or equivalent project, such as iChoosr or Make My House Green. Points awarded to any other scheme councils are doing that are on a similar scale to Solar Together.

Clarifications

If the project is being led by the County Council or a combined authority and all other councils in that area are involved too, then all those district councils will be awarded the points.

The project cannot be a trial project.

Marked using data provided by Solar Streets - https://solarstreets.co.uk/ and Solar Together - https://solartogether.co.uk/landing

Question performance by council type

Points distribution county councils

0 points

8 county councils

7 in 2023

▲1

1 point

0 county councils

0 in 2023

0

2 points

13 county councils

14 in 2023

▼-1

Note: “in 2023” counts show how the councils listed below were marked on this question in 2023. This list of councils may be slightly different to the list of councils originally assessed on this question in 2023, due to the creation and abolition of councils between Scorecard years.

Rising and falling county councils

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councils scored higher in 2025

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11

councils scored lower in 2025

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Scores and evidence county councils

Council	Score	Difference2023	Evidence
Cambridgeshire County Council Score 2025 2/2 2023 Difference -- Evidence cambridgeshire.gov.uk	2/2	--	cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Devon County Council Score 2025 2/2 2023 Difference -- Evidence devonclimateemergency.org.uk devon.gov.uk bigcommunityswitch.co.uk	2/2	--	devonclimateemergency.org.uk devon.gov.uk bigcommunityswitch.co.uk
East Sussex County Council Score 2025 2/2 2023 Difference -- Evidence eastsussex.gov.uk	2/2	--	eastsussex.gov.uk
Essex County Council Score 2025 2/2 2023 Difference -- Evidence essex.gov.uk essex.gov.uk essex.gov.uk	2/2	--	essex.gov.uk essex.gov.uk essex.gov.uk
Hampshire County Council Score 2025 2/2 2023 Difference -- Evidence hants.gov.uk hants.gov.uk solartogether.co.uk	2/2	--	hants.gov.uk hants.gov.uk solartogether.co.uk
Hertfordshire County Council Score 2025 2/2 2023 Difference -- Evidence dacorum.gov.uk hccsp.org.uk	2/2	--	dacorum.gov.uk hccsp.org.uk
Kent County Council Score 2025 2/2 2023 Difference -- Evidence kent.gov.uk solartogether.co.uk	2/2	--	kent.gov.uk solartogether.co.uk
Leicestershire County Council Score 2025 2/2 2023 Difference -- Evidence leicestershire.gov.uk solartogether.co.uk leicestershire.gov.uk	2/2	--	leicestershire.gov.uk solartogether.co.uk leicestershire.gov.uk
Lincolnshire County Council Score 2025 2/2 2023 Difference -- Evidence lincolnshire.gov.uk bigcommunityswitch.co.uk	2/2	--	lincolnshire.gov.uk bigcommunityswitch.co.uk
Suffolk County Council Score 2025 2/2 2023 Difference -- Evidence suffolk.gov.uk	2/2	--	suffolk.gov.uk
Surrey County Council Score 2025 2/2 2023 Difference -- Evidence news.surreycc.gov.uk	2/2	--	news.surreycc.gov.uk
West Sussex County Council Score 2025 2/2 2023 Difference -- Evidence westsussex.gov.uk westsussex.gov.uk	2/2	--	westsussex.gov.uk westsussex.gov.uk
Worcestershire County Council Score 2025 2/2 2023 Difference -- Evidence worcestershire.gov.uk	2/2	--	worcestershire.gov.uk
Derbyshire County Council Score 2025 0/2 2023 Difference --	0/2	--	Evidence doesn't meet criteria
Gloucestershire County Council Score 2025 0/2 2023 Difference --	0/2	--	No evidence found
Lancashire County Council Score 2025 0/2 2023 Difference --	0/2	--	No evidence found
Norfolk County Council Score 2025 0/2 2023 Difference --	0/2	--	No evidence found
Nottinghamshire County Council Score 2025 0/2 2023 Difference --	0/2	--	No evidence found
Oxfordshire County Council Score 2025 0/2 2023 Difference --	0/2	--	No evidence found
Staffordshire County Council Score 2025 0/2 2023 Difference --	0/2	--	No evidence found
Warwickshire County Council Score 2025 0/2 2023 Difference ▼ 0	0/2	▼ -2	No evidence found