Data Request Form

Name:(Required)

Role within organisation:(Required)

Organisation name:(Required)

Is your organisation public or private sector?(Required)

Can you please give a brief explanation into the work your organisation does?(Required)

Email address:(Required)

The UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the Data Protection Act (DPA 2018) and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) seek to protect and enhance the rights of UK data subjects. These rights cover the safeguarding of Personal Data and its protection against unlawful processing.

Please see the link to our Privacy Policy: https://mcscertified.com/privacy-policy/

Please read below statement

The MCS Installations Database (MID) holds the details of every MCS certified, small-scale renewable energy installation in the UK since 2008. MCS is a voluntary certification scheme in the sector, so MCS does not capture all small-scale renewable energy installations in the UK, and thus MCS data only encompasses MCS certified installations.

The scope of technologies covered by MCS is up to 50kW for electrical technologies, such as solar PV, and up to 45kW for heat technologies, such as heat pumps (up to 70kW for multiple products installed in a single system). Additional technologies include battery storage, biomass, micro CHP, solar heating and small wind turbines.

We hold information on both MCS certified installers (defined as installation companies) and MCS certified installations. Installation data is taken from the installation certificates raised by MCS certified installers for each specific system that they have delivered. The certificate will only hold the names of the MCS certified installers that have installed the system. Installer information is in a separate dataset, which includes company address details, certification dates, operating regions covered and technologies they are certified for.

Please be aware that, as a form of best practice and GDPR compliance, we are obliged to limit the data sharing as much as possible to still be able to fulfil the purposes of the projects in question. As such, we would appreciate that you only request data that is absolutely necessary for the project.

We are not currently able to provide data via an API and thus data transfer(s) will be uploaded to our file sharing platform or shared via email depending on the data provided.

We also host a breadth of information on the MCS Data Dashboard, we would appreciate if you could take a look on the dashboard to see if the data available on there can fulfill your request before continuing with the request form. Each set of data available on the dashboard can be downloaded as a CSV file.

Any data provided that exists beyond the scope of our MCS Data Dashboard may incur a charge.

The link to access the MCS Data Dashboard is provided below, and it is free to create an account.

https://datadashboard.mcscertified.com/

Purpose and Usage

What is the purpose of obtaining this data, i.e., the specific project or work that the data will inform?(Required)

What is the intended usage of this data, i.e., will the data be shared with any third parties, shared on any public facing platforms, or used solely for internal analysis?(Required)

If sharing with third parties, do you have any agreements in place? Please provide further detail below, i.e., organisation name, level of data to be shared, agreement type.(Required)

If you do plan to publish or share the data externally, at what geographical level will this be (e.g., postcode, LSOA etc.)?(Required)

Will the data obtained be commercialised? If so, please provide details below.(Required)

Do you intend to contact the households of the data subjects? If so, please provide details below.(Required)

Data Fields

Please include your reasoning below on why you need this specific data. Leave blank if you don’t require the data type.(Required)

Is the data that you require confined to a specific geographical scope/scopes? If so, please indicate the relevant area or areas below.(Required)

What is the timeframe of the data that you are interested in? Please note the data is available from 2008 onwards.(Required)

Please indicate, using tables (1) and (2), which data fields you require. Note that, depending on your intended usage of the data and the project in question, we may not be able to provide you with all fields, with more restrictions placed on the sharing of personal or sensitive information, as outlined in table (1).

Table (1): Personal or sensitive data fields:

Please include your reasoning below on why you need these specific data fields. Leave blank if you don’t require the field.(Required)

Table (2): Additional installation data fields:

Please include your reasoning below on why you need this specific data. Leave blank if you don’t require the field.(Required)

Please note that, if necessary, a full data dictionary is available upon request.

Data Transfer Requirements

Are you happy for the data to be shared via our secure file sharing platform, or do you require transfer via a separate method? If so, please provide details of this platform below.(Required)

Please provide details of for how long your organisation will retain the data for and furthermore, where this data will be stored.(Required)

Organisation Details

Are you working in conjunction or on behalf of any other organisations? If so, please provide the name of the organisation(s) and their relationship to you, with regards to this project, below.(Required)

If you are working with/on behalf of any other organisations, will they have sight of the data at the same level of granularity as you will receive? If applicable, please provide details below.(Required)

Do you have any ongoing GDPR concerns?(Required)

Email

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