King Edward VI Northfield School for Girls
Secondary Turves Green, Northfield, Birmingham B314BPLast week your school used 6,900 kWh of electricity.
That's enough energy to boil 46,000 kettles.
Last week your school's electricity use generated 1,700 kg of carbon dioxide.
That's the same amount of carbon dioxide generated when you drive a petrol car 10,000 km.
Last year your school used 250,000 kWh of electricity.
That's the energy generated by a UK on shore wind turbine in 11 weeks
Last week your school used 6,900 kWh of electricity.
That's enough energy to drive an electric car 41,000 km.
Last month your school has used £3,500 of electricity.
That's enough to buy 710 books for the school library.
Last year your school used 250,000 kWh of electricity.
It will take 46 trees, each living 40 years, to absorb the carbon dioxide released when this electricity was generated.
Last year your school used 250,000 kWh of electricity.
That's enough energy to run a modern television continuously for 710 years.
Last week your school used 6,900 kWh of electricity.
That's enough energy to charge 960,000 smartphones.
Last year your school used 250,000 kWh of electricity.
That's the electricity used by 96 average homes in a year.
Last week your school used 6,900 kWh of electricity.
That's enough energy to play 3 years 11 months of computer games.
Last month your school used 24,000 kWh of electricity.
That's the energy needed to drive a petrol car 35,000 km.
Last month your school used 24,000 kWh of electricity.
That's the energy generated by a UK onshore wind turbine in 7 days.
Last year your school used 250,000 kWh of electricity.
That's the energy generated by 1,000 solar panels in a year.
Last week your school's electricity use cost £1,000.
That's enough to buy 410 school dinners.
Let's look at the energy use data for your school:
Things to do
Whoa - last week the amount of electricity you use overnight increased. If this keeps happening it will cost you £11,000 more over the next year. Time to investigate, Energy Team!
Over the last year 67% 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 £25,000. Time to take action!
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
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Set up an Energy or Eco team to lead on energy efficiency at your school
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Complete an activity to score points on Energy Sparks. You only need to score 20 points to overtake the next school!