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Built Environment School Service (BESS) Energy

Worried about increasing energy costs? Wanting to save money and improve your environmental credentials? Energy and water is one of the biggest spends for schools after staffing. Leicester City Council has worked closely to develop an offer as part of BESS schools to develop tools and reports to empower staff and students to take control of their energy and water use.

Further information

DynamatLite

Leicester City Council has provided energy and water efficiency advice using its half hourly energy & water monitoring systems and bureau service to schools on an ad hoc basis. Schools were not a part of the corporate energy contract and, therefore, the energy management team was not funded to provide this service. Exceptions were made for projects where external funding contributed towards officer time e.g. Smart Spaces and EDI-Net etc.

All Leicester schools were informed in June 2019 through a memorandum of understanding that until September 2020 they would be able to continue to be able to take advantage of the energy monitoring and data system along with project officer support to identify wastage and leaks. From September 2020, schools will not be able to access this service unless they pay for a traded service. As part of the council’s commitment to our Climate Emergency Declaration BESS Energy and BESS Enhanced is offered as cost price.

For those schools that do not choose to sign up to one of the BESS Energy offers, we will continue to encourage you to submit your billing data to us so that we can include them in our carbon disclosure and positively identify those schools that have provided data, so no school is excluded from our city wide climate emergency reporting. However there will be a cost of £25 for us to provide energy data to your preferred DEC provider from 1 September 2020. This provision is covered in BESS Energy and BESS Academies (and covers the standard DEC certificate production in BESS Energy Enhanced). 

BESS Energy Core 2022-23 - 12 month subscription

This offer is open to all schools in Leicester City at cost price as part of our Climate Emergency Declaration commitment.

What is included in the service:

  • Monitoring equipment installed and maintained (main meter gas or district heat, water, and electricity) throughout your subscription
  • Access to DynamatLite2050, the updated half-hourly energy and water monitoring website used by Leicester City Council for your own unique data
  • Identification and reporting of excessive use/wastage (phone and email)
  • Annual energy and carbon report which identifies trends in data and potential savings over 5 years (subject to data availability) and up to one hour Teams walkthrough of the report
  • Data report for Academies – Streamlining Energy and Carbon Reporting (SERC) as required (saving £150)
  • Provision of data for school’s preferred DEC provider
  • Regular updates via email and Teams online

This service will start 1 September 2022, you can sign up after this date on a pro-rata basis.

£545, 10% discount for BESS Schools

 

BESS Energy Enhanced 2022-23 - 12 month subscription

This offer is open to all schools in Leicester City at cost price as part of our Climate Emergency Declaration commitment. 

What is included in the service?

BESS Energy enhanced includes all the benefits of BESS Energy including:

  • Monitoring equipment installed and maintained (main meter gas or district heat, water, and electricity) throughout your subscription
  • Access to DynamatLite2050, the updated half-hourly energy and water monitoring website used by Leicester City Council for your own unique data
  • Identification and reporting of excessive use/wastage (phone and email)
  • Annual energy and carbon report which identifies trends in data and potential savings over 5 years (subject to data availability), and up to one hour Teams walkthrough of the report
  • Data report for Academies Streamlining Energy and Carbon Reporting (SERC) requirements (saving £150)
  • Provision of data for school’s preferred DEC provider
  • Regular updates via email and Teams online

This service will start 1 September 2022, you can sign up after this date on a pro-rata basis.

£1295, 10% discount for BESS Schools

 

BESS Energy Academies 2022-23 - Annual Energy and Carbon Report

From 1 April 2020, academy trusts will need to report on environmental reporting regulations. Regulations require large companies which consume more than 40,000 kWh of energy in a reporting period to include certain information about energy efficiency measures. Large companies are defined by sections 465-466 of the Companies Act 2006 as companies which meet 2 out of the following 3 criteria:

  • Gross income of £36 million or more;
  • Balance sheet assets of £18 million or more; and
  • 250 employees or more

The reporting period for academy trusts will be 1 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. Further guidance is available on the Government website.

Academies in Leicester City that choose BESS Energy or BESS Energy Enhanced will receive BESS Energy Academies as part of the product and do not need to purchase twice, saving up to £160 per school.

What is included in the service?

Reports which covers:

  • Annual carbon, energy and water usage reports
  • Analysis of energy and water trends/patterns of usage 
  • Identifying the impact of energy/water efficiency improvements
  • Data in a format required as part of Energy and Carbon Reporting regulation (from September 2020):
  • UK energy use (in kWh) including purchased electricity, gas and transport fuel
  • Associated greenhouse gas emissions (in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent)
  • At least one ‘intensity ratio’ that expresses the academy trust’s annual emissions in relation to a quantifiable factor associated with its activities
  • Information about energy efficiency action taken during the year
  • Methodologies used in the calculation of disclosures
  • Provision of a collated MAT report provided

Provision of data for school’s preferred Display Energy Certificate (DEC) provider

This offer is open to all Multi-Academy Trusts (not just Leicester)

This service is available from September 2022, with reports published in October 2022.

£160 per school, 10% discount for BESS Schools

 

Display energy certificate (DEC) energy data provision 

For schools that do not choose to sign up to one of the BESS Energy offers there will be a cost of £25 for us to provide energy data to your preferred DEC provider from 1 September 2020. This provision is included in BESS Energy and BESS Academies (and covers the standard DEC certificate production in BESS Energy Enhanced). 

DEC certificate

  • Provision of data to school’s preferred DEC provider

£25.00

 

To sign up for any of the BESS Energy subscriptions please complete the online form.

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