Summary: Local Authority Common Ask Template

This Common Ask template is a practical and thoughtful solution to a long-standing challenge: how to efficiently share energy planning data across multiple networks. By aligning data requirements and reducing duplication, it frees up time and resources for local authority teams to focus on delivering their climate and energy plans.

It also ensures your data has maximum impact, feeding directly into infrastructure planning across electricity and gas networks.

If you’re preparing or updating your LAEP, this template is a must-use tool — and a great example of industry collaboration working in your favour.

The document pack contains two folders, which outline how to prepare data for the different Networks interested in using your data to inform their planning.

Effort has been made to minimise the difference between these data dictionaries, with the intention of minimising the amount of additional effort required to prepare data for multiple audiences.

For example, for heating technologies for individual buildings, the formats are very similar and only differ in the technologies considered.

However, due to differences in how Networks use your data, some unavoidable differences do exist between the formats needed for the two dictionaries, so caution is advised to make sure that the data prepared aligns with the format required for the specific technologies.

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