Government data from the Government Digital Service detailing electricity consumption and associated carbon dioxide emissions for buildings and street lighting. The dataset is provided in CSV format under the UK Open Government Licence. Temporal and geographic coverage are not specified in the available metadata.
Use Cases
- Benchmark municipal energy efficiency based on reported electricity consumption for street lighting.
- Estimate carbon footprint of public building portfolios based on CO2 emissions data.
- Analyze sectoral energy use patterns for buildings versus public lighting infrastructure.
Strengths
- Data originates from the authoritative Government Digital Service.
- Available under the permissive UK Open Government Licence for reuse.
Limitations
- Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- Government Digital Service
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
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