SAVE YOUR ENERGY!
Energy consumption represents a huge expense for schools, so how can you improve efficiencies and reduce costs? Georgina Penfold, Energy Solutions Manager at YPO explains
QWE’VE HEARD THAT CHANGING
TO LED LIGHTING CAN SAVE AS MUCH AS 60 PER CENT, SO HOW DO WE GO ABOUT IMPLEMENTING THIS? Lighting upgrades are a great way to reduce your running costs and energy consumption, particularly if you have older infrastructure at your school. For example, a quad with a power rating of 72W each with a single 34W LED panel. That’s a reduction of 85 per cent
in electrical load from the lamps, not to mention additional savings that automatic switching and daylight harvesting – where the output of the lamps responds to the light levels coming in through the windows. More importantly, several studies have linked good-quality lighting to
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higher educational performance, especially in SEND schools, where working environment. Unfortunately, there are a lot of
cheap imported lamps on the market that do not perform as promised providers and to take advice from an over large sums of cash. Actually, a supplier that is registered with the complete energy savings reports, interest loans from Salix Finance to help with the capital expenditure. sector organisations to reduce their energy consumption and will happily provide further advice to schools considering lighting upgrades.
QWE BELIEVE WE ARE NOW
ABLE TO CHOOSE OUR WATER SUPPLIER – HOW DO WE GET MORE INFORMATION ON THIS? Correct! From 1 April 2017, non- household water customers in own water supplier, in the same way that you can already choose your own gas and power suppliers. To get more information, the
(
openwater.org.uk) that gives a good explanation – or you can ask a compliant procurement route in place to help you choose your water supplier so we at YPO (or any of our to explain what it all means.
QWHERE CAN WE GET MORE INFORMATION ON REDUCING
ENERGY OR WATER CONSUMPTION? These days, most non-domestic energy and water suppliers have teams, so speak to your existing suppliers. If you don’t want to talk to the people who sell your utilities when you’re trying to save on costs,
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