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Barton Hill Academy
Barton Hill Road, Torquay TQ2 8JA
Primary
Electricity
Last year your school used 130,000 kWh of electricity.
That's the electricity used by 48 average homes in a year.
Electricity
Last year your school used 130,000 kWh of electricity.
That's the energy generated by a UK onshore wind turbine in 6 weeks
Solar PV
Last month your school's solar panels generated 1,000 kWh of electricity.
That's enough energy to heat the hot water for 500 showers.
Solar PV
Last year your school's solar panels generated 41,000 kWh of electricity.
That's enough energy to run a modern television continuously for 116 years.
Solar PV
Last year your school's solar panels generated 41,000 kWh electricity.
That's enough energy to drive an electric car 52,000 km.
Electricity
Last week your school's electricity use cost £920.
That's enough to buy 370 school dinners.
Solar PV
Last month your school's solar panels generated 1,000 kWh of electricity.
That's enough energy to boil 7,000 kettles.
Electricity
Last week your school used 3,200 kWh of electricity.
That's enough energy to charge 160,000 smartphones.
Electricity
Last year your school used 130,000 kWh of electricity.
That's enough energy to run a modern television continuously for 371 years.
Solar PV
Last week your school's solar panels generated 260 kWh of electricity.
That's enough energy to play 8 weeks of computer games.
Electricity
Last week your school used 3,200 kWh of electricity.
That's enough energy to boil 21,000 kettles.
Electricity
Last week your school used 3,200 kWh of electricity.
That's enough energy to drive an electric car 17,000 km.
Electricity
Last year your school used 130,000 kWh of electricity.
It will take 19 trees, each living 40 years, to absorb the carbon dioxide released when this electricity was generated.
Electricity
Last week your school's electricity use generated 450 kg of carbon dioxide.
That's the same amount of carbon dioxide generated when you drive a petrol car 2,600 km.
Electricity
Last year your school used 130,000 kWh of electricity.
That's the energy generated by 490 solar panels in a year.
Electricity
Last month your school used 14,000 kWh of electricity.
That's the energy generated by a UK onshore wind turbine in 4 days.
Electricity
Last month your school used 14,000 kWh of electricity.
That's the energy needed to drive a petrol car 18,000 km.
Electricity
Last week your school used 3,200 kWh of electricity.
That's enough energy to play 1 year 10 months of computer games.
Electricity
Last month your school has used £4,000 of electricity.
That's enough to buy 800 books for the school library.
Gas
Last year your school used 270,000 kWh of gas.
That's the gas used by 24 UK homes in a year.
Gas
Last week your school used 13,000 kWh of gas.
That's enough energy to heat the hot water for 6,400 showers.
Gas
Last year your school used 270,000 kWh of gas.
It will take 56 trees, each living 40 years, to absorb the carbon dioxide released when this gas was burnt.
Gas
Last week your school's gas use generated 2,400 kg of carbon dioxide.
That's the same amount of carbon dioxide generated when you drive a petrol car 14,000 km.
Gas
Last month your school's gas use cost £4,900.
That's enough to pay for 1,900 school dinners.
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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 4/8 of the tasks in the Get Energised! programme
Complete the final 4 tasks now to score 70 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
Hey Team! - The amount of electricity your school uses overnight is high. Over the last year you used on average 8.3 kW. In other schools like yours (similar number of pupils), this baseload is 5.8 kW. Can you bring your baseload down, and save the school £6,300?
Over the last year your school's gas use was 270,000 kWh and generated 50,000 kg CO2. This is too high. Other schools of a similar size used 200,000 kWh. Match these schools and save £8,100!
Scoreboard update
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Complete our recommended activities and actions to score points, win prizes and start reducing your energy usage.
You are in 25th place on the South-West England scoreboard and 98th 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.
What's been going on?
A list of recent adult and pupil-led activities at this school
| Date | Points | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Dec 2025 | 30 | Create and maintain a holiday switch off list |
| 04 Dec 2025 | 35 | Comprehensive review of boiler control settings |
| 24 Oct 2025 | 20 | Switched off hot water in school holidays |
| 16 Oct 2025 | 30 | Appoint pupil energy monitors in all classes |
| 16 Oct 2025 | 35 | Label lights and appliances to show which should be left on or turned off |
| 09 Oct 2025 | 35 | Set up an Energy or Eco team to lead on energy efficiency at your school |
| 25 Jul 2025 | - | Switched off hot water in school holidays |
| 14 Feb 2025 | 30 | Switched off heating in school holidays |
| 04 Dec 2024 | 30 | Changed central heating set temperature |
| 27 Sep 2024 | 10 | Analyse your school energy use - when is your school occupied? |