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Nelson Academy

Nursery Road, Downham Market, Norfolk PE38 9PF
Primary

Electricity

Last year your school used 73,000 kWh of electricity. 

That's the energy generated by 270 solar panels in a year.

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Electricity

Last week your school's electricity use cost £280. 

That's enough to buy 110 school dinners.

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Electricity

Last year your school used 73,000 kWh of electricity. 

It will take 10 trees, each living 40 years, to absorb the carbon dioxide released when this electricity was generated.

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Electricity

Last year your school used 73,000 kWh of electricity. 

That's enough energy to run a modern television continuously for 207 years.

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Electricity

Last week your school used 1,300 kWh of electricity. 

That's enough energy to boil 8,800 kettles.

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Electricity

Last week your school used 1,300 kWh of electricity. 

That's enough energy to drive an electric car 7,000 km.

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Electricity

Last year your school used 73,000 kWh of electricity. 

That's the energy generated by a UK onshore wind turbine in 3 weeks

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Electricity

Last week your school's electricity use generated 120 kg of carbon dioxide. 

That's the same amount of carbon dioxide generated when you drive a petrol car 710 km.

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Electricity

Last week your school used 1,300 kWh of electricity. 

That's enough energy to play 9 months of computer games.

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Electricity

Last week your school used 1,300 kWh of electricity. 

That's enough energy to charge 66,000 smartphones.

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Electricity

Last year your school used 73,000 kWh of electricity.

That's the electricity used by 27 average homes in a year.

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Gas

Last year your school used 140,000 kWh of gas. 

That's the gas used by 12 UK homes in a year.

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Gas

Last week your school used 1,100 kWh of gas. 

That's enough energy to heat the hot water for 530 showers. 

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Gas

Last year your school used 140,000 kWh of gas. 

It will take 29 trees, each living 40 years, to absorb the carbon dioxide released when this gas was burnt.

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Gas

Last week your school's gas use generated 200 kg of carbon dioxide. 

That's the same amount of carbon dioxide generated when you drive a petrol car 1,200 km.

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Well done, you are making progress towards achieving 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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Over the last year 59% 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 £12,000.  Time to take action!

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Hey Team! - The amount of electricity your school uses overnight is high. Over the last year you used on average 4.2 kW. In other schools like yours (similar number of pupils), this baseload is  3.7 kW.  Can you bring your baseload down, and save the school £880?

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You are in 4th place on the East of England scoreboard and 33rd place nationally.

5th

930

points

4th

955

points

3rd

1065

points

Felixstowe School
Nelson Academy
John Grant School

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
9th Southery Academy 30 Completed a programme
28th Glade Academy 10 Carry out a spot check to see if lights or electrical items are left on at lunch time
48th Beaumont School 10 Turned off fridges and freezers in the school holidays
48th Chesterton Primary School 10 Started working towards their energy saving target

What's been going on?

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

All activities

Date Points Activity
18 Dec 2026 30 Create and maintain a holiday switch off list
23 Oct 2026 30 Create and maintain a holiday switch off list
23 Jan 2026 0 Switched off lights and IT equipment after school
22 Jan 2026 0 Started a campaign to open blinds and switch off lights
22 Jan 2026 0 Switched off lights and IT equipment after school
22 Jan 2026 30 Conduct a lighting audit of your school
21 Jan 2026 35 Introduced an energy efficiency reward system
12 Jan 2026 30 Installed lights with occupancy sensors
07 Jan 2026 30 Completed a programme
06 Jan 2026 10 Switched off lights and IT equipment after school

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