How to get your school’s heating set up correctly for winter
Are you suffering from energy bill anxiety in the run up to winter? Here, we share guidance on how to avoid energy waste by optimising your heating set up at the start of the season.
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How to set an energy saving target at your school
Setting energy saving targets for your school can be a great way to galvanise your team to take action, and to understand whether these actions are achieving meaningful impact. But how ambitious should you be? Here we offer some advice.
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Five ways to make the best possible start to your energy saving this year
A warm welcome to all our new Energy Sparks schools – and to our returning schools, welcome back! Here, we share our top tips to help you make the best possible start to energy saving this year.
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Let’s get outside! Ideas, resources and inspiration for Walk to School Week (19th – 23rd May)
Are you ready for Walk to School Week, which will run from 19th – 23rd May? If not, we’re here to help! Our cut out the high carbon commute programme takes the stress out of planning by providing ideas and resources to help you and your pupils take action.
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Common heating issues and how to solve them
We’re into the final winter push – longer days and warmer nights are on the horizon and soon we will be switching our heating off for the summer. But for now, the heating is still on, so let’s look at how to reduce heating waste as much as possible.
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How much can I save by upgrading to LEDs?
We often get asked by school leaders and estates teams how much they could save by upgrading their lighting to LEDs and if there’s a way to tell from their Energy Sparks account how much of their electricity use is down to lighting. We’ve asked school energy expert and founder of Inspired Efficiency, Matt Fulford […]
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Why baseload matters – focus on summer holidays
Another summer holiday over, where did the time go?! We’ve been reminiscing about the holidays in our own way – by looking at energy consumption statistics! We’ve been comparing this summer with last summer (the energy use, not the weather). We know not all schools completely close down during the holidays, but even those that do open […]
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How to find details about your school’s solar panels
If your school has solar panels installed, Energy Sparks will need to display the solar generation on your school’s account to ensure that we analyse your electricity usage correctly. Solar generation is the amount of energy produced by the panels.
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How to find your gas and electricity meter numbers
In order to set up your school on Energy Sparks, we need to be supplied with your school’s meter details. Energy Sparks uses your meter details as a unique reference number in order to identify your school’s energy data on our system. It can be difficult finding your school’s meter details if you do not know where to look so we have created this guide to help you find the information that Energy Sparks needs.
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A guide to metering and how to find out what type of meter you have installed at your school
It can be confusing trying to figure out what type of meter you have installed at your school and whether it is able to share data with Energy Sparks, so this guide aims to explain this in more detail.