An education trust’s effort to increase the use of renewable energy as living costs rise is helping pupils to understand the need for cost-cutting at home, its chief executive has said.
Bellevue Place Education Trust (BPET), which runs more than 30 schools across the UK, France and Switzerland, has partnered with energy provider eEnergy in a bid to make its sites net zero by 2030.
The switch came amid the cost-of-living crisis, when one of the Trust’s schools saw energy bills increase from £18,000 a year to £80,000 a year.
Measures taken to hit BPET’s target include installing solar panels on buildings, installing LED lights in classrooms across five schools and using intelligent energy systems in all schools to measure usage.
