Council Energy Consumption, Costs, and Carbon Data from 2013/14

Leeds City Council data on energy consumption, associated costs, and carbon implications for council sites from buildings to street lighting, starting from the 2013/14 period. The dataset is provided by the Government Digital Service via the eu_open_data platform and was last updated in February 2021. Electricity and gas are supplied under contracts with Engie Power Ltd and Engie Gas Ltd, respectively.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking public building energy efficiency based on consumption data.
• Analyzing operational cost trends for municipal energy contracts.
• Estimating carbon footprint reductions for council sustainability reporting.
• Modeling energy demand patterns across different council site types.

Strengths

• Includes carbon implication data, enabling environmental impact analysis.
• Covers multiple energy types (electricity and gas) and associated costs.
• Provides a temporal starting point from the 2013/14 financial year.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Last updated 2021-02-03 15:24:16.865000; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely collected from council operational records and utility contracts.

Time Range

From 2013/14 onwards

Freshness

Last updated 2021-02-03 15:24:16.865000

Geography

Likely Leeds, United Kingdom, based on the description referencing Leeds City Council.