Analyse your school energy use - what's happening in the school kitchen?
Analyse your school's kitchen energy use and interview kitchen staff to understand how their behaviour fits with the data
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School kitchens can consume a lot of electricity. To produce hundreds of dinners to be served in a very short period of time, schools need industrial scale equipment.
Let's look at the data from schools with kitchens and schools with out. Compare the graphs of Schools and A and B with those of Schools C, D and E. The schools in one group have a kitchen onsite, the others do not. Can you tell which is which?
Group 1
Let's look at the data from schools with kitchens and schools with out. Compare the graphs of Schools and A and B with those of Schools C, D and E. The schools in one group have a kitchen onsite, the others do not. Can you tell which is which?
Group 1
Group 2
Create a questionnaire to ask your kitchen staff about their energy use. You may want to ask questions like:
- When you do arrive and leave?
- What equipment do you switch on when you arrive?
- What time are the ovens/ dishwashers/sterilisers/ ventilation hoods/ kettles turned on and off?
- When do fridges and freezers get turned off?
Answers
The schools in Group A have kitchens. Their energy consumption is typically high until lunchtime then tails off.