School budgets are tight and staff are time-poor presenting a barrier to schools engaging with energy saving or sustainability. Secondary school energy bills now average around £150,000 pa, while primary schools use around £35,000 pa. More than half of schools' energy is used outside of school hours, meaning that there is a significant opportunity to reduce costs by making simple changes to heating settings, and by ensuring lights and equipment are switched off at the end of the school day.

Energy Sparks provides a unique online 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 data, Energy Sparks shows pupils and staff how much energy the school is using each day. The unique online tool presents bespoke analysis of the energy data with suggestions of pupil and adult actions the school community could take to save energy.