Biomass Procurement and Cost for the Defra Estate, July 2012 to April 2016

Monthly data on biomass procurement and cost for individual sites across the Defra estate from July 2012 to April 2016. The dataset was published by the Government Digital Service and is available via the EU open data platform.

Use Cases

• Analyzing monthly biomass procurement trends based on the time-series nature of the data
• Comparing procurement costs across different sites within the government estate
• Modeling biomass supply and expenditure for public sector sustainability reporting

Strengths

• Data covers a defined period of nearly four years, from July 2012 to April 2016
• Provides site-level granularity for procurement and cost analysis

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely administrative records from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) estate.

Time Range

July 2012 to April 2016

Freshness

Data covers up to April 2016; last update date is unknown.

Geography

Sites across the Defra estate (likely United Kingdom).