Information for Schools
Find
your school now
Have you found your school on the map?
Take a look at the thermal
map to find your school. You will need to know the school
post code to find your school.
What will the map tell you?
Once you have found the school buildings compare the colour of
the building on the map with the colour scale. If the
building is red there would have been a lot of heat loss on the
evening the image was taken. A green building shows little heat
loss.
Easy actions that could help reduce your school bills
| Action |
Benefit |
Potential saving |
| Label the light switch to remind everyone to switch off when
the lights are not needed |
Making use of natural light in the classroom will help reduce
the amount of energy you use |
Further savings could be made by using thinner fluorescent tube
lighting. This could reduce energy consumption by up to
10% |
| Switch off computers when they are not in use |
IT equipment not only increases the school electricity bill but
also produces excess heat which may mean the room will require
cooling |
Leaving a computer monitor in sleep mode could waste around £9
a year for each monitor |
| Check any thermostat timers are set correctly to reflect when
the rooms are occupied |
Setting the thermostat timer correctly will make sure the
building is heated when in use and energy not being wasted |
Make further savings by making sure the thermostat and heaters
are not blocked by furniture as this would affect how effectively
the room is heated |
| If classrooms are too warm, request the heating be turned down
rather than open windows |
This will help to save money on the bills by not letting all
the heat escape through the window |
Turning the heating down by 1C can reduce costs by as much as
8% |
This page was last reviewed 22 November 2011 at 9:38.
The page is next due for review 20 May 2013.