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Christopher Margetts My ref: 101003286971 Date: 14 July 2017 Sent by email: [email protected] Dear Mr Margetts Your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 Thank you for your information access request which we received on 24 June 2017. Please find enclosed the Council’s response to your request. We hope that this fully satisfies your enquiry, but should you require further information at any time please feel free to submit a new request. Cornwall Council is committed to open and transparent government and provides information to members of the public about all aspects of the authority. We deal with over 4000 requests for information each year. We estimate that the cost to Cornwall Council of dealing with each request ranges between £150 and £350 to administer. You may be able to find the information by checking previous responses using www.cornwall.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=24586 or checking the Council’s website at www.cornwall.gov.uk. Most of the information that we provide in response to Freedom of Information requests will be subject to copyright protection. In most cases the copyright will be owned by Cornwall Council. The copyright in other information may be owned by another person or organisation, as indicated in the information itself. Konsel Kernow Cornwall Council, County Hall Truro, TR1 3AY Tel: 0300 1234 100 www.cornwall.gov.uk You are free to use any information supplied for your own use, including for non- commercial research purposes. The information may also be used for the purposes of news reporting. If you are not happy about the outcome of your response, you have the right to request an Internal Review. This must be done within 40 working days of the receipt of your response. If you wish to complain about the outcome of your request, please write to: Freedom of Information Complaints Cornwall Council Room 4S County Hall Truro TR1 3AY Email: [email protected] If this does not resolve the matter to your satisfaction, you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner, the contact details of whom are: FOI/EIR Complaints Resolution Information Commissioner's Office Wycliffe House Water Lane Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 5AF Email: [email protected] Yours sincerely Dhywgh hwi yn hwir Economic Growth Service / Gonis Tevyans Erbysek Economic Growth and Development / Tevyans ha Displegyans Erbysek [email protected] Konsel Kernow Cornwall Council, County Hall Truro, TR1 3AY Tel: 0300 1234 100 www.cornwall.gov.uk Reference Number: IAR-101003286971 Response provided under: Freedom of Information Act 2000 Request and Response: “Since becoming a unitary council in 2009, Cornwall Council has built on the work of the former district and county councils and, under the Green Cornwall programme, has developed and implemented a range of innovative and ground breaking projects designed to make the most of Cornwall’s natural resources for the benefit of residents, communities and the local economy. These include ……. the implementation of a comprehensive electric car charging network.” “The vision for Cornwall’s Energy Future …… identifies ambitious targets for 2030 which are designed to ensure that residents, communities and the local economy all benefit from the low carbon energy transition” including “Increasing the proportion of Cornwall’s energy ‘spend’ that is retained within the local economy to 30%”. ref. www.cornwall.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/council-news-room/media- releases/news-from-2017/news-from-january-2017/cornwall-council-sets-new-ambitions- for-cornwall-s-energy-future/ It has been over 12 months since CCC installed Superfast EV charge points (SEVCP’s) throughout Cornwall. In order to understand how the SEVCP’s and Fast chargers have benefitted the residents, communities and the local economy I should like to enquire about their usage over the past 12 months (or the most recent 12 month period that has been accounted/reported - whichever is the most convenient for you to provide). If it is not possible to separate the use of SEVCP’s from the whole of CCC’s electric car charging network then please provide the answers to the questions below in respect to the whole of CCC’s electric car charging network (i.e. both SEVCP’s and Fast chargers). Please advise (for the 12 month period) separately for SEVCP’s and Fast chargers (FC’s): 1. How much of the spend on energy, provided by SEVCP’s/FC’s, is retained within the local economy? I assume this is zero because SSE is responsible for charge pricing. Due to the novation of Cornwall Council’s (CC) network operation relationship with SSE over to ChargePoint Services in August 2016, the data management system required to capture the data to answer this question have only been in place from August 2016. Cornwall Council is provided data with respect to kWh consumption on the network and does not have access to the data on the connection fees taken by ChargePoint Services, however: Circa 9% of the spend on power consumed through the Cornwall Council- ChargePoint Services network was returned to Cornwall Council and hence could be considered to re-entered the Cornish economy. This estimate is based on the kWh consumption by all chargepoints and recharge payments paid to Cornwall Council by ChargePoint Services for the 6 months between August 2016 and January 2017; The connection fees are considered to relate primarily to covering the cost of connecting to/ operating the network back office and support services (e.g. 24/7 call centre, servicing and maintenance) and hence it is debateable as to whether they should be considered as ‘energy spend’. 2. Are any of the SEVCP’s/FC’s used by CCC EV fleet? Yes. If yes, how much does CCC pay to per connection and then per unit of electricity used? There are two EV pool cars and two EV pool vans on trial. After the fleet charge point piloting period was completed Cornwall Council fleet EVs have paid the standard ChargePoint Services Genie network fees for using the charge points. The rates for fleet, staff and public are currently as follows: Superfast/rapid charge points: £1.00 connection fee, 30p per kWh used Fast charge points: 50p connection fee, 30 per kWh used If these CCC fees differ from the fees advertised on the ChargePointGenie website do any CCC staff get provided with the benefit of CCC reduced fees for personal use? For information: ChargePointGenie website pricing shows: Connection fee £1.00 Cost per kW hour £0.30p. www.chargepointservices.co.uk/drivers/geniepoint- pricing/ Cornwall Council staff do not receive any reductions in the ChargePoint Services Genie fees for personal use. The fees for Cornwall Council do not differ from the fees advertised (listed above), they are as per the standard national ChargePoint Services Genie network rates. 2a. How many Connections have CCC fleet made to SEVCP’s/FC’s? Due to the novation of Cornwall Council’s relationship with SSE to ChargePoint Services in August 2016, the systems to capture this info have only been able to record the data required to answer this question from August 2016. Prior to this point the fleet charge points were in pilot and testing mode. During the pilot and charge point testing period the power was supplied under Cornwall Council’s standard building contract and the pilot vehicles were not charged for usage of the charge points by SSE. At this time there was no billing from SSE to Cornwall Council for the use of the charge points as a substantial amount of charge point testing and debugging was being conducted by the CC/CORMAC fleet vehicles. After the pilot and testing phase, during the 10 month standard operating period between start August 2016 and the latest available data on fleet use (end June 2017) CC/CORMAC fleet users have connected to the network 225 times. 2b. How many kW hours have CCC purchased when using the SEVCP’s/FC’s? During the same 10 month period (referred to in the response to 2a) CC fleet has consumed 2910.72 kWh. 3a. How many connections have been made to SEVCP’s/FC’s? (excluding CCC fleet) During 2016 (latest data year) there were 2,306 total connections to the network. Excluding the CC/CORMAC fleet usage of 270 connections (across a period which includes some of the CC/CORMAC fleet pilot as well as the standard operating period) total public and staff usage of the network is estimated to be 2,036 connections. 3b. How many kW hours have been purchased when using the SEVCP’s/FC’s? (excluding CCC fleet) During 2016 (latest data year) total power consumption across the network was 24,424 kWh. Excluding fleet usage of 2,629 kWh (during the CC fleet pilot period and standard operating period) total public and staff usage of the network consumed 21,795 kWh. 4. If you are unable to answer any question because the management of the SEVCP’s is performed by ChargePointGenie please advise how CCC will be able to show that it is “Increasing the proportion of Cornwall’s energy ‘spend’ that is retained within the local economy to 30%”. This is of course a contradiction in policies since increasing the use of CCC’s “comprehensive electric car charging network” results in increasing the proportion of Cornwall’s energy ‘spend’ that is made outside the local economy i.e. to SSE. In terms of the charge point network’s contribution to Cornwall Council’s ‘energy future 2030 outcomes’ aspiration to see 30% of energy spend retained in the Cornish economy. Cornwall Council receives recharge payments from ChargePoint Services for any power consumed in charge points it hosts on Council land.