Your school has recently had a heat pump installed. The purpose of installing the heat pump is to decarbonise your school’s energy. This means switching to a heating source creating less carbon dioxide. Most schools with a heat pump were previously heated with gas, a carbon based fuel, using a boiler. Your heat pump is powered by electricity.
Heat pumps are more efficient than gas boilers - delivering 3 or 4 times the amount of heat for the same amount of energy. In this way the amount of carbon emitted as a result of using a heat pump is lower than using a gas boiler. And the electricity grid is getting cleaner all the time, with a national target to completely decarbonise electricity generation by 2035. This means the carbon dioxide produced as a result of running a heat pump will reduce over time.
The heat pump will take over from the gas boiler in heating your school. However this will mean a change in your electricity consumption. The attached worksheet will take you step by step through analysing your energy data to identify that change.
