Work has been carried out at a Denbighshire primary school to provide better energy efficiency for staff and pupils and lower long term building energy costs.
Denbighshire County Council’s Energy Team has worked to tackle energy efficiency and lower costs at Ysgol Bodfari.
The team has managed a number of projects across Council owned buildings including schools, to help improve building energy efficiency, reduce emissions and also usage costs over the longer term.
The Council’s Energy team assessed the building to see what areas of energy use could be improved to increase efficiency.
Work at Ysgol Bodfari included the installation of a ( 7.47KW) solar panel system on the school roof. Each Kilowatt generated and used by the school will save around 22 pence and this capacity not only reduces substantial carbon it also reduces strain on the local grid infrastructure.
LED lighting was also installed inside the school which will help improve efficiency and drive down energy use costs.
The school has also had a new modern efficient boiler installed which allows further energy long term cost savings and better efficiency for the whole site.
All the work is expected to result in savings annually of around 18079kWh, over 4.5 tonnes of carbon emissions and over £2961 per annum in reduced energy costs, paying back what has been invested in a short space of time.
Martyn Smith, Property Energy and Carbon Manager, said: “We have brought together different strands of technology at the school to help improve the building environment for the pupils and staff and also drive down energy bills long-term.”
Cllr Barry Mellor, Lead Member for Environment and Transport, added “We are committed to reducing our buildings carbon emissions and thank the Energy Team for their proactive work and the support from pupils and staff at Ysgol Bodfari while the work was carried out.”
