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Last weekend your school used little or no gas. Well done for minimising your weekend gas use!

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Last year you used 31,000 kWh of gas and 4,600 kWh of electricity in the Spring half term 2024 holidays. Turn off your heating, hot water and electrical appliances to save around £2,600 this year. 

Recent changes in your energy usage

Bad News!  Your school's electricity use in the Xmas 2024/2025 holidays has increased by 24% compared to Xmas 2023/2024. Between Saturday 21 Dec 2024 and Thursday 2 Jan 2025 you used 8,600 kWh at a cost of £2,300. This is an increase of 1,700 kWh compared to the same period in the holidays last year and released an extra 380 kg CO2.

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Last week the school's electricity baseload was 17% more than the average over the last year. If this continues it will cost £8,000 more over the next year. 

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Watch out - term time gas use has increased costing an extra £220 each week. Check whether heating thermostats are set to 18°C to save energy.

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Excellent! Between Saturday 21 Dec 2024 and Friday 3 Jan 2025 you used 19,000 kWh of gas at a cost of £840. Adjusting for changes in outside temperature, this is a saving of 40,000 kWh and 7,400 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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Comparison with other schools

Last year peak electricity consumption was 120 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 370,000 kWh. This is good - Keep it up! Other schools with a similar number of pupils use 500,000 kWh. 

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Long term trends and advice

Annual electricity consumption has increased by 110,000 kWh compared to last year. What can you switch off to make a difference?

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There is a large variation in seasonal overnight electricity usage from 26 kW in the winter to 19 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 £4,600 annually.

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Your school could save £3,700 each year if the heating set temperature was reduced by 1°C

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The school's thermostatic control at 0.76 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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