Smart Meters in Council Owned Buildings
As a council, we’ve installed 293 smart meters into our corporate buildings and schools. These devices have given us the ability to remotely access consumption data, allowing us to identify and drive down energy waste.
Our work was recently recognised by the Department for Education (DfE) and the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) as an exemplar case study to help other public sector organisations better understand how they can benefit from smart meters.
The smart meter data has also been used to drive pupils’ engagement and behaviour change. Several lesson plans have been created to teach children about the impact of energy. In most of the schools, the pupils take charge of the energy awareness campaign, monitoring the usage, identifying waste, and implementing energy saving actions.