Last year you used 14,000 kWh of gas and 3,000 kWh of electricity in the Easter 2024 holidays. Turn off your heating, hot water and electrical appliances to save around £1,900 this year.
Recent changes in your energy usage
Well done! Term time gas use has decreased saving £67 and 390 kg CO2 from being released to the atmosphere each week.
Last week, electricity used at night decreased by 13% compared to the average over the last year. Keep this up and the school will save £3,200 over the next year.
Excellent! Electricity use in the Spring half term 2025 holidays has decreased by 27% compared to Spring half term 2024. Between Saturday 15 Feb 2025 and Sunday 23 Feb 2025 you used 1,300 kWh at a cost of £640. This is a saving of 480 kWh compared to the same period in the holidays last year and saved 75 kg CO2.
Gas use in the Spring half term 2025 holidays has increased by 4.5% compared to Spring half term 2024.
Between Saturday 15 Feb 2025 and Sunday 23 Feb 2025 you used 9,800 kWh of gas at a cost of £310. Adjusting for changes in outside temperature, this is still an increase of 420 kWh and 77 kg CO2. Ask the school site manager to check the heating controls to reduce gas use during the school holidays.
Last year peak electricity consumption was 51 kW. The best performing schools of a similar size have a peak consumption of 52 kW. Keep switching off to save even more electricity!
The school's thermostatic control at 0.79 is above average. An average value for schools is 0.62 and a perfect value is 1.0. The lower the value below 1.0, the worse the school's thermostatic control.
Over the last year 52% of gas was used when the school was closed. This is good compared to many schools, but has still cost £5,500. Can you try to reduce it further?
Over the last year 47% of electricity was used when the school was closed, costing £29,000. This is good compared to many schools, but could you reduce out-of-hours electricity use even more?
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