Greenhouse gas emissions

Director's report 2024 to 2025

GHG Emissions Report 2024-2025 overall emissions

Company name

Hampshire County Council is a local authority whose headquarters are based at:

The Castle
Winchester
Hampshire
SO23 8ZB

Reporting period

1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025

Change in Emissions

The County Council’s overall gross emissions have decreased by 1% this year compared to 2023-24, to 47,517 tonnes of CO2e.

Scope 1 emissions from heating fuels used in HCC buildings have decreased by 3% from 2023-24. The main heating fuel used is natural gas and this year there has been a 3% decrease in consumption, attributed to estate rationalisation, energy efficiency measures implemented during the reporting year, and positive behavioural changes. Oil consumption on the built estate has increased slightly by 1%, linked to the temporary use of oil for emergency heating at one site.

For our fleet and pool cars, there has been no use of Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) in the fleet this reporting year due to the increase in cost premium for HVO. As a result, fuel use has reverted to diesel, leading to a 147% rise from 2023-24 in emissions for this Scope 1 source, bringing emissions back to levels observed prior to the HVO pilot in 2021-22.

Scope 2 emissions from electricity use in HCC buildings and street lighting have decreased by 3% from 2023-24. With the national electricity conversion factor remaining stable from 2023-24, the reduction in emissions is due to a 3% reduction in electricity consumption in HCC buildings, attributable to the same factors affecting gas consumption noted above. Electricity consumption from street lighting has remained unchanged from 2023-24.

Total Scope 3 emissions, limited to those that we report on, have decreased by 1% from 2023-24. Private vehicle mileage decreased by 3%, the first decrease since the COVID pandemic reporting year of 2020-21. This reflects a change of behaviour in this type of business travel and greater use of HCC’s fleet of electric pool cars, with an 11% increase in pool car mileage from 2023-24, charged through HCC’s own electric vehicle charging points.

In contrast, water consumption across the estate increased this year, leading to an 8% increase in emissions associated with both water and wastewater supply. The emission figure for waste generated through operations remains unchanged from 2023-24, as updated data from the water services provider for 2024-25 is still pending.

Approach

We have followed the Government’s Guidance on how to measure and report greenhouse gas emissions along with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. We used the 2024 conversion factors to calculate the figures.

Organisational boundary

We have used the Financial Control model as the basis to calculate our emissions.

For further details relating to specific areas included in this report, refer to GHG Emissions Report 2024-2025 Inclusions and Exclusions

Operational scopes

We have measured our Scope 1, 2 and limited Scope 3 emissions.

Scope 1

Source	GHG emissions in tonnes of CO2e 2024 to 2025	GHG emissions in tonnes of CO2e 2023 to 2024	GHG emissions in tonnes of CO2e 2022 to 2023
Fleet vehicles and pool cars (HTM1)	1,532	620	515
Fleet vehicles and pool cars (HTM2)	0	0	0
Buildings: natural gas	20,129	20,839	22,524
Buildings: burning oil	364	297	335
Buildings: gas oil	491	556	630
Buildings: LPG	701	689	428
Scope 1 total	23,216	23,002	24,433

Scope 2

Source	GHG emissions in tonnes of CO2e 2024 to 2025	GHG emissions in tonnes of CO2e 2023 to 2024	GHG emissions in tonnes of CO2e 2022 to 2023
Electricity generation (purchased): buildings	9,868	10,220	9,761
Electricity generation (purchased): street lighting	2,759	2,769	2,569
Scope 2 total	12,627	12,989	12,330

Limited Scope 3

Source	GHG emissions in tonnes of CO2e 2024 to 2025	GHG emissions in tonnes of CO2e 2023 to 2024	GHG emissions in tonnes of CO2e 2022 to 2023
Business travel - Private cars	2,390	2,467	2,428
Business travel - Public transport	71	72	74
Buildings: water supply	132	127	96
Buildings: water treatment	152	137	166
Waste Generated in Operations	149	149	146

Indirect emissions

Source	GHG emissions in tonnes of CO2e 2024 to 2025	GHG emissions in tonnes of CO2e 2023 to 2024	GHG emissions in tonnes of CO2e 2022 to 2023
WTT: fleet vehicles and pool cars (HTM1)	375	263	287
WTT: fleet vehicles and pool cars (HTM2)	0	0	0
WTT: buildings - natural gas (indirect)	3,325	3,442	3,837
WTT: buildings - burning oil (indirect)	76	62	70
WTT: buildings - gas oil (indirect)	112	126	145
WTT: buildings - LPG (indirect)	83	82	51
Transmission and distribution (purchased electricity): buildings	872	884	893
Transmission and distribution (purchased electricity): street lighting	244	240	235
WTT: UK electricity generation: buildings	2,188	2,265	2,334
WTT: UK electricity generation: street lighting	612	614	614
WTT: UK electricity transmissions and distribution: buildings	189	196	214
WTT: UK electricity transmission and distribution: street lighting	53	53	56
WTT: Business travel - Private vehicles	637	653	651
WTT: Business travel - Public transport	13	14	16
Transmission and Distribution (T&D) for EVs Business Travel-Private vehicles	1	1	1
Scope 3 total	11,673	11,847	12,313

Overall total

GHG emissions in tonnes of CO2e 2024-25	GHG emissions in tonnes of CO2e 2023-24	GHG emissions in tonnes of CO2e 2022-23
47,517	47,839	43,439

GHG Emissions Report 2024-2025 yearly comparison figures

Geographic breakdown

The figures relate to UK emissions only. Hampshire County Council has no business interests outside of the UK.

Base year

Following changes in the data collection process, our emissions figures were restated and therefore 2013-14 is taken as the baseline year. In 2021-22 we expanded our Scope 3 reporting to include commercial waste generated by HCC operations and business travel by public transport.

Targets

Following the declaration of a Climate Emergency in July 2019 a target has been set to be carbon neutral by 2050.

Intensity measurement

The intensity measurement is tonnes of CO2e per GIA m2 of the estate as this is the most appropriate way to measure the intensity for the public sector.

This has remained the same at 0.033 tonnes of CO2e per m² of the estate from 2023-24 to 2024-25.

Carbon offsets

The County Council does not currently purchase carbon offsets.

Green tariffs

The County Council did not purchase a Renewable Energy Guarantee of Origin (REGO) electricity tariff during this reporting period.