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<p>The electricity used by the FCO across its UK estate is procured using the Crown
Commercial Service (CCS). CCS is an executive agency and trading fund of the Cabinet
Office of the British Government.</p><p>Through their competitively tendered Energy
related commercial agreements, CCS ensure all legislation is adhered to including
the environmental standards of suppliers. CCS is not able to dictate the sources of
power to be supplied to the government departments as this is internal policy driven.
The FCO is currently receiving electricity from the standard UK supply mix, however
they have the option to access renewable energy from a variety of alternative routes,
taking into account the additional financial commitment.</p><p>The current CCS framework
under which the FCO procures its electricity expires in 2023. Under the CCS framework,
the electricity is supplied by EDF. The electricity supplied is not solely from renewable
resources. The CCS Framework does provide the ability to have electricity solely from
renewable resources. The FCO is investigating this option.</p><p>The FCO actively
seeks to manage its energy consumption as demonstrated by having reduced carbon emissions
associated with its UK energy consumption from 9,485 tCO2e in 2017/18 to 7,357 tCO2e
in 2018/19, a reduction of 22.44%.</p>
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