2023 Action Scorecards

Action Scorecards 2023

Question: Are the council's operations powered by renewable energy?

Question code
1.2
Section
Buildings & Heating
Topic
Council buildings - renewable energy tariff
Source
FOI
Question weight
Low

Criteria

Criteria met if the council has a green tariff that is 100% renewable or if the council creates its own energy equivalent to 20% of more of its energy consumption through energy from waste.

Additional points awarded if the council has a green tariff with Green Energy UK plc, Good Energy Limited or Ecotricity, or if the council creates its own renewable energy equivalent to 20% or its energy consumption. This could be through on-site energy generation, or if the council has built or bought a solar/wind farm elsewhere.

Clarifications

This includes all energy that the council is directly responsible for, in council offices and any other buildings leased and managed by the council where the council pays the energy tariff.
This includes all electricity used in these buildings (not gas).
This does not include homes owned or managed by the council.

Question performance

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0 points

4 Northern Irish councils

1 point

7 Northern Irish councils

2 points

0 Northern Irish councils
CouncilScoreEvidence
Ards and North Down Borough Council1/2
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council1/2
Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council1/2
Derry City and Strabane District Council1/2
Fermanagh and Omagh District Council1/2whatdotheyknow.com
Mid Ulster District Council1/2whatdotheyknow.com
Newry, Mourne and Down District Council1/2
Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council0/2
Belfast City Council0/2
Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council0/2
Mid and East Antrim Borough Council0/2