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Bedford Academy

Mile Road, Bedford MK429TR
Secondary

Electricity

Last year your school used 920,000 kWh of electricity. 

That's enough energy to run a modern television continuously for 2633 years.

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Electricity

Last week your school's electricity use generated 1,400 kg of carbon dioxide. 

That's the same amount of carbon dioxide generated when you drive a petrol car 8,100 km.

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Electricity

Last year your school used 920,000 kWh of electricity. 

That's the energy generated by 3,500 solar panels in a year.

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Electricity

Last week your school used 14,000 kWh of electricity. 

That's enough energy to play 8 years of computer games.

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Electricity

Last year your school used 920,000 kWh of electricity. 

It will take 140 trees, each living 40 years, to absorb the carbon dioxide released when this electricity was generated.

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Solar PV

Last week your school's solar panels generated 3,900 kWh of electricity. 

That's enough energy to play 2 years 3 months of computer games.

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Solar PV

Last year your school's solar panels generated 130,000 kWh of electricity. 

That's enough energy to run a modern television continuously for 377 years.

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Electricity

Last week your school used 14,000 kWh of electricity. 

That's enough energy to drive an electric car 72,000 km.

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Electricity

Last year your school used 920,000 kWh of electricity.

That's the electricity used by 340 average homes in a year.

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Electricity

Last week your school's electricity use cost £4,500. 

That's enough to buy 1,800 school dinners.

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Electricity

Last year your school used 920,000 kWh of electricity. 

That's the energy generated by a UK onshore wind turbine in 9 months

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Solar PV

Last year your school's solar panels generated 130,000 kWh electricity. 

That's enough energy to drive an electric car 170,000 km.

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Electricity

Last week your school used 14,000 kWh of electricity. 

That's enough energy to boil 91,000 kettles.

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Electricity

Last week your school used 14,000 kWh of electricity. 

That's enough energy to charge 680,000 smartphones.

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Gas

Last week your school used 4,100 kWh of gas. 

That's enough energy to heat the hot water for 2,000 showers. 

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Gas

Last week your school's gas use generated 740 kg of carbon dioxide. 

That's the same amount of carbon dioxide generated when you drive a petrol car 4,400 km.

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Gas

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Unfortunately you are not meeting your target to reduce your electricity usage

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Well done, you are making progress towards achieving your target to reduce your gas usage!

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Hey Team! - The amount of electricity your school uses overnight is high. Over the last year you used on average 70 kW. In other schools like yours (similar number of pupils), this baseload is  27 kW.  Can you bring your baseload down, and save the school £120,000?

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Over the last year 71% 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 £210,000.  Time to take action!

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Bedford Academy
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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.

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Place School Points Activity
18th Bedford Free School 55 Created a climate action plan
3rd John Grant School 30 Pupils take part in a holiday switch off
22nd Elm CofE Primary School 30 Set up an Energy or Eco team to lead on energy efficiency at your school
15th Queensway Infant and Junior Academies 10 Displayed pre-heat times next to kitchen appliance

What's been going on?

A list of recent adult and pupil-led activities at this school

All activities

Date Points Activity
25 Oct 2024 20 Set up an Energy or Eco team to lead on energy efficiency at your school
09 Sep 2024 10 Run a regular assembly about saving energy
06 Sep 2024 10 Pupils and staff set an energy reduction target
01 Apr 2024 0 Started working towards their energy saving target
01 Apr 2023 0 Started working towards their energy saving target

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