St Edward's College, a voluntary aided school in Liverpool, has
1,150 pupils from 11 to 18 years old. With restricted budgets and
annual energy costs of £55,600, the college was eager to reduce its
energy consumption, particularly when any savings could be used for
extra college materials.
Survey
St Edwards College staff soon realised that they needed
some specialist help and contacted the Carbon Trust to benefit from
its expertise in the area of energy conservation.
As a first step the Carbon Trust carried out a survey of the
site to see what results could be achieved with minimal financial
investment.
As a result of the survey the Carbon Trust produced a list of
recommendations, which detailed how St Edward's could make the
energy savings it was looking for and potentially reduce its annual
energy costs by 20 per cent.
Energy saving recommendations
One year on, the college has implemented a number of the
cost-saving recommendations, including installing presence lighting
circuits into large areas such as the assembly hall and dining hall
and is currently making arrangements to install a swimming pool
cover to help insulate the pool. Staff at the college are also far
more vigilant now about ensuring that air conditioning, lights and
other electrical equipment is switched off at the end of the
day.
Other recommendations the college is now looking at implementing
include:
- Renegotiating the electricity contract with the supplier and
consider using green energy
- Installing efficiency controls to boilers and replacing damaged
heating insulation
- Introducing an energy monitoring system