Analyse your school energy use - what's happening in the school kitchen?

School kitchens can consume a lot of electricity.  To produce hundreds of dinners to be served in a very short period of time, schools need industrial scale equipment.

Let's look at the data from schools with kitchens and schools with out. Compare the graphs of Schools and A and B with those of Schools C, D and E.  The schools in one group have a kitchen onsite, the others do not.  Can you tell which is which?  Why 

Group 1

 

Group 2

This is your schools data:

Create a questionnaire to ask your kitchen staff about their energy use.  You may want to ask questions like:

Do their answers match what the data is showing you?


Answers
The schools in Group A have kitchens.  Their energy consumption is typically high until lunchtime then tails off.