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Last year you used 5,800 kWh of gas and 1,600 kWh of electricity in the Easter 2024 holidays. Turn off your heating, hot water and electrical appliances to save around £780 this year.

Last weekend gas use was 170 kWh costing about £11. Well done for minimising your weekend gas use!

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Recent changes in your energy usage

Well done! Term time gas use has decreased saving £51 and 140 kg CO2 from being released to the atmosphere each week.

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Gas use in the Spring half term 2025 holidays has increased by 21% compared to Spring half term 2024.

Between Saturday 22 Feb 2025 and Sunday 2 Mar 2025 you used 8,000 kWh of gas at a cost of £520. Adjusting for changes in outside temperature, this is still an increase of 1,400 kWh and 250 kg CO2. Ask the school site manager to check the heating controls to reduce gas use during the school holidays.

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Excellent! Electricity use in the Spring half term 2025 holidays has decreased by 7.4% compared to Spring half term 2024. Between Saturday 22 Feb 2025 and Sunday 2 Mar 2025 you used 1,100 kWh at a cost of £300. This is a saving of 92 kWh compared to the same period in the holidays last year and saved 34 kg CO2.

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Comparison with other schools

Last year peak electricity consumption was 23 kW. The best performing schools of a similar size have a peak consumption of 39 kW. Keep switching off to save even more electricity!

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Electricity usage over the last year was 67,000 kWh. This is good - Keep it up! Other schools with a similar number of pupils use 110,000 kWh.

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Long term trends and advice

Your school could save £1,100 each year if the heating set temperature was reduced by 1°C

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The school's thermostatic control at 0.72 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.

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