This help page describes the data report for schools called ‘Energy targets - detailed data'. This report shows detailed tabular data on your school's energy consumption and energy performance over time, and its progress towards the energy targets.
- This report comprises a header and a series of data tables that are grouped in multiple report tabs and sub-tabs.
- Name of your school and its PSO ID.
- '2030 EE target' indicates your school's 2030 energy efficiency target and its energy efficiency baseline period.
- ‘Last year for which data reported’ indicates the most recent year for which data is shown in the report. Note that the data for this year could be incomplete, e.g. because you have not yet inputted some of your data.
- ‘Data status’ indicates how complete the data is for the most recent year.
This tab provides a breakdown of your school's energy consumption over time.
- This table shows your final energy consumption in each year, broken down by energy type, and aggregated into subtotals and totals. Final energy consumption is the actual energy supplied to your school. In simple terms, the quantities shown should correspond to the quantities of energy that your school actually pays for. Final energy does not include any of the additional energy that is used outside your school in order to generate the energy that your school uses, or to distribute or transport that energy to your school.
- The table shows data for every year from the start of your energy efficiency baseline to the most recent reporting year.
- The table shows all consumption in kilowatt-hours (kWh) on a net calorific value basis. Note that natural gas is billed in kWh on a gross calorific value basis, which is a different unit.
- This table shows your weather-adjusted final energy consumption in each year, broken down by energy type, and aggregated into subtotals and totals. Weather adjustment refers to a calculation applied to your school's consumption of heating fuels to account for variations in weather from year to year.
- The table shows data for every year from the start of your energy efficiency baseline to the most recent reporting year.
- This table shows your primary energy consumption in each year, broken down by energy type, and aggregated into subtotals and totals. Primary energy accounts for any additional energy that is consumed outside your school in order to generate and distribute the energy to your school. It is calculated by applying primary energy conversion factors, which vary by fuel type.
- The table shows data for every year from the start of your energy efficiency baseline to the most recent reporting year.
- This table shows the values reported by you for full-time equivalent pupils, full-time equivalent employees and floor area, for each year.
- It shows all the data reported for years from the start of your energy efficiency baseline to the most recent reporting year.
This tab provides details on your school's energy performance to date, including its progress towards the 2030 energy efficiency target.
- Row 1 shows the EnPI (energy performance indicator) used to calculate your school's energy performance and its progress towards the 2030 energy efficiency target. Your school's EnPI is calculated by dividing its annual energy consumption by the number of pupils in that year. A decreasing EnPI is an indicator of improving energy efficiency. And vice versa.
- Rows 2 and 3 both show a normalised EnPI from the start of your energy efficiency baseline period to the reporting year. It is 100 at your energy efficiency baseline and the values for subsequent years are expressed relative to this baseline value.
- This table shows your school's progress to date towards the 2030 energy efficiency target.
- Row 1 ‘Normalised EnPI’ shows your energy performance indicator (EnPI), expressed on a normalised basis. If the normalised EnPI is lower than the value shown for the same year in row 2, your school is broadly on track to achieve its energy efficiency target. And vice versa.
- Row 2 ‘2030 target & trajectory (normalised EnPI)’ is a calculated trajectory for your normalised EnPI, from your energy efficiency baseline to your 2030 target. This trajectory is based on a constant improvement in energy performance from baseline to 2030. To see the 2030 target and the trajectory all the way to 2030, you need to specify the period to 2030 using the ‘period' boxes above the report header.
- Row 3 ‘Change in EnPI since EE baseline’ is the indicator used to track your progress towards the energy efficiency (EE) target. Negative values indicate an improvement in efficiency since baseline, and vice versa.
- Row 4 shows the ‘Gap to 2030 target’. Positive values indicate percentage-point gap to the 2030 energy efficiency target.
- Row 5 shows the ‘Improvement required to reach 2030 target’. Positive values indicate additional reduction in EnPI required to reach the 2030 energy efficiency target.
- The table shows all the data reported for relevant years from the start of your energy efficiency baseline to the most recent reporting year. It also shows the trajectory to the target for all years to 2030.
- This table shows the changes in your total energy consumption in each year.
- Rows 1 & 2 show the change in your final energy consumption since your energy efficiency baseline and since the previous year.
- Rows 3 & 4 show the change in your weather-adjusted energy consumption since your energy efficiency baseline and since the previous year.
- Rows 5 & 6 show the change in your primary energy consumption since your energy efficiency baseline and since the previous year.
- The table shows data for every year from the start of your energy efficiency baseline to the most recent reporting year.
This tab presents future scenario(s) for your school's energy performance. It currently presents one scenario (BAU). A second scenario will be added later in 2024.
- This table shows a future ‘business as usual’ scenario for your school with respect to the energy efficiency target, for the years between the last year for which data was reported (the reporting year) and 2030. It also shows your progress to date towards the target.
- The BAU scenario assumes that: (1) your final energy consumption remains constant between the reporting year and 2030; (2) your pupil numbers remain constant between the reporting year and 2030; (3) the primary energy conversion factor for grid electricity changes in line with SEAI forecasts to 2030. These forecasts incorporate several variables and assumptions, and are refined periodically.
- Row 1 shows your actual final energy consumption up to the reporting year, and the BAU final energy consumption for the years to 2030.
- Row 2 shows your actual primary energy consumption up to the reporting year, and the BAU primary energy consumption for the years to 2030.
- Row 3 shows your actual pupil numbers up to the reporting year, and the BAU pupil numbers ('activity metric') for the years to 2030.
- Row 4 shows your actual energy performance indicator (EnPI) up to the reporting year, and the BAU EnPI for the years to 2030.
- Row 5 shows your normalised EnPI up to the reporting year, and the BAU normalised EnPI for the years to 2030.
- Row 6 shows the calculated trajectory for your normalised EnPI, from your energy efficiency baseline to your 2030 target. This trajectory is based on a constant improvement in energy performance from baseline to target year.
- Row 7 shows the calculated change in your EnPI for the BAU scenario, since the energy efficiency baseline. Negative values indicate an improvement in efficiency since baseline, and vice versa.
- Row 8 shows the gap to the 2030 target for the BAU scenario. Positive values indicate percentage-point gap to the 2030 energy efficiency target.
- Row 9 shows the improvement required from the BAU scenario to to reach the 2030 target. Positive values indicate additional reduction in EnPI required to reach the 2030 energy efficiency target.
- This table shows the values used in the weather-adjustment calculations for each year.
- Row 1 shows the weather-adjustment factor for electricity.
- Row 2 shows the weather-adjustment factor for natural gas.
- Row 3 shows the weather-adjustment factor for non-natural gas thermal energy consumption (other thermal).
- Row 4 shows the value reported by you for the share of electricity used for heating. For many schools, this is very small.
- This table shows the primary energy conversion factor electricity.
- The data reports page includes additional information on features that are common to many of the data reports, including this one.
- The SEAI reference for this data report is PSO-R24. Please include this reference if you are contacting the helpdesk with a query relating to this report.