Claudia Towner

CEO 

Energy Sparks provides a school specific energy management tool and education programme designed to help schools, their pupils and staff reduce their energy use and carbon footprint. Using a school’s electricity, gas and solar half-hourly consumption and generation data, Energy Sparks shows pupils and staff how much energy the school is using each day. The unique online tool presents bespoke pupil and adult focused analysis and benchmarking of the energy data with school specific suggestions of actions the school community could take to save energy. We particularly focus on data driven, no and low cost energy saving opportunities such as optimising heating settings to cut holiday and weekend waste and reducing overnight electricity use.

Energy Sparks provides online and weekly emailed alerts and action prompts informing pupils and staff when their consumption changes and the cost and carbon implications. Alerts are uniquely linked to over 140 pupil activities which provide opportunities for students to work in partnership with school estates staff on energy saving audits and campaigns and develop energy saving and carbon reduction life-skills to take home to their families and communities.  Schools are encouraged to record completed activities on the Energy Sparks portal, earning points and sharing best practice with other schools. Prizes are awarded at the end of the year to the top scoring schools to motivate sustained engagement with energy saving action.