Goldstone Primary School

Bad News!  Your school's electricity use in the Summer half term 2023 holidays has increased by 65% compared to Summer half term 2022. Between Saturday 27 May 2023 and Sunday 4 Jun 2023 you used 2,300 kWh at a cost of £350. This is an increase of 920 kWh compared to the same period in the holidays last year and released an extra 12 kg CO2.

Your heating is currently on and the forecast for next week is for warm weather, with an average daytime temperature of 16.9C. We recommend you turn your heating off all together or perhaps only have it on before the school is occupied in the morning. By turning your heating off you could save £130.

There is a large variation in seasonal overnight electricity usage from 16 kW in the winter to 6.3 kW in the summer. This suggests electric heating is left running overnight during the winter or the school has inefficient security or flood lights. Change electric heater settings and improve lighting efficiency to save £3,800 annually.