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Accrington Academy
Queens Road West, Accrington
BB5 4FF
Secondary
Electricity
Last week your school's electricity use cost £4,300.
That's enough to buy 1,700 school dinners.
Electricity
Last year your school used 1,100,000 kWh of electricity.
That's enough energy to run a modern television continuously for 3187 years.
Electricity
Last year your school used 1,100,000 kWh of electricity.
That's the energy generated by a UK onshore wind turbine in 11 months
Electricity
Last year your school used 1,100,000 kWh of electricity.
That's the energy generated by 4,200 solar panels in a year.
Electricity
Last year your school used 1,100,000 kWh of electricity.
It will take 170 trees, each living 40 years, to absorb the carbon dioxide released when this electricity was generated.
Solar PV
Last week your school's solar panels generated 520 kWh of electricity.
That's enough energy to play 4 months of computer games.
Solar PV
Last year your school's solar panels generated 81,000 kWh electricity.
That's enough energy to drive an electric car 100,000 km.
Electricity
Last week your school used 21,000 kWh of electricity.
That's enough energy to charge 1,100,000 smartphones.
Electricity
Last week your school used 21,000 kWh of electricity.
That's enough energy to boil 140,000 kettles.
Electricity
Last week your school used 21,000 kWh of electricity.
That's enough energy to drive an electric car 110,000 km.
Electricity
Last year your school used 1,100,000 kWh of electricity.
That's the electricity used by 410 average homes in a year.
Solar PV
Last year your school's solar panels generated 81,000 kWh of electricity.
That's enough energy to run a modern television continuously for 232 years.
Electricity
Last week your school used 21,000 kWh of electricity.
That's enough energy to play 12 years of computer games.
Electricity
Last week your school's electricity use generated 2,900 kg of carbon dioxide.
That's the same amount of carbon dioxide generated when you drive a petrol car 17,000 km.
Gas
Last week your school's gas use generated 6,000 kg of carbon dioxide.
That's the same amount of carbon dioxide generated when you drive a petrol car 35,000 km.
Gas
Last week your school used 33,000 kWh of gas.
That's enough energy to heat the hot water for 16,000 showers.
Gas
Last year your school used 1,900,000 kWh of gas.
That's the gas used by 170 UK homes in a year.
Gas
Last year your school used 1,900,000 kWh of gas.
It will take 400 trees, each living 40 years, to absorb the carbon dioxide released when this gas was burnt.
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Reminders and alerts
Reminders
Measure classroom temperatures to find out whether you should turn down the heating to save energy
Start a transport survey so that you can find out how much carbon your school community generates by travelling to school
You have completed 2/7 of the tasks in the Beat your baseload programme
Complete the final 5 tasks now to score 140 points and 30 bonus points for completing the programme
Recent alerts
Unfortunately you are not meeting your target to reduce your electricity usage
Unfortunately you are not meeting your target to reduce your gas usage
Last weekend your school used 7,800 kWh of gas, which will have cost about £310. Ask the site manager to switch off the heating at the weekend to save energy!
Over the last year 66% of your electricity was used when the school was closed. What are those teachers getting up to out of hours?? This has cost the school £150,000. Time to take action!
Scoreboard update
You need to score more than 30 points to overtake the next school!
Complete our recommended activities and actions to score points, win prizes and start reducing your energy usage.
You are in 7th place on the North-West England scoreboard and 83rd place nationally.
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Recent activity on your scoreboard
Schools score points by recording their activities to investigate their energy use, learning about energy, and taking energy saving actions around their school.
| Place | School | Points | Activity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Sir John Deane's Sixth Form College | 30 | Completed a programme |
| 1st | Sir John Deane's Sixth Form College | 30 | Upgraded security lights to LED |
| 3rd | Oasis Academy - Media City UK | 10 | Fixed dripping hot taps |
| 1st | Sir John Deane's Sixth Form College | 10 | Checked fridge and freezer door seals |
What's been going on?
A list of recent adult and pupil-led activities at this school
| Date | Points | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| 01 Sep 2025 | 10 | Started working towards their energy saving target |
| 23 Jan 2025 | 10 | Understand your school's baseload |
| 14 Nov 2024 | 30 | Run a campaign to switch off electrical equipment overnight |
| 07 Nov 2024 | 30 | Started a campaign to keep the doors and windows closed when the heating is on |
| 31 Oct 2024 | 5 | Carry out a spot check to see if lights or electrical items are left on after school |
| 31 Oct 2024 | 20 | Set up an Energy or Eco team to lead on energy efficiency at your school |
| 16 Jul 2024 | 30 | Create and maintain a holiday switch off list |
| 16 Jul 2024 | 10 | Analyse your school energy use - when is your school occupied? |
| 16 Jul 2024 | 10 | Introduced an energy efficiency reward system |
| 01 Jul 2024 | 0 | Started working towards their energy saving target |