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Last year you used 55,000 kWh of gas and 12,000 kWh of electricity in the Easter 2024 holidays. Turn off your heating, hot water and electrical appliances to save around £4,700 this year. 

Last weekend 4,600 kWh of gas was used costing £210. Switch off the heating at the weekend to save energy!

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Recent changes in your energy usage

Last week the school's electricity baseload was 19% more than the average over the last year. If this continues it will cost £10,000 more over the next year. 

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Well done! Term time gas use has decreased saving £710 and 2,900 kg CO2 from being released to the atmosphere each week.

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Excellent! Between Saturday 15 Feb 2025 and Sunday 23 Feb 2025 you used 66,000 kWh of gas at a cost of £3,000. Adjusting for changes in outside temperature, this is a saving of 6,600 kWh and 1,200 kg CO2 compared to the same period in the holidays last year. This means your gas consumption has decreased more than expected taking account of weather changes. 

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Bad News!  Your school's electricity use in the Spring half term 2025 holidays has increased by 8.8% compared to Spring half term 2024. Between Saturday 15 Feb 2025 and Sunday 23 Feb 2025 you used 9,100 kWh at a cost of £2,000. This is an increase of 730 kWh compared to the same period in the holidays last year and released an extra 150 kg CO2.

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Comparison with other schools

Last year peak electricity consumption was 92 kW. The best performing schools of a similar size have a peak consumption of 150 kW. Keep switching off to save even more electricity!

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Electricity usage over the last year was 380,000 kWh. This is good - Keep it up! Other schools with a similar number of pupils use 480,000 kWh. 

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Long term trends and advice

There is a large variation in seasonal overnight electricity usage from 44 kW in the winter to 21 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 £16,000 annually.

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Your school could save £2,000 each year if the heating set temperature was reduced by 1°C

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