Hillview School for Girls in Kent saves on bills via HeatingSave Hillview School for Girls is a large secondary school located on the southern edge of Tonbridge in Kent. There are 1,300 pupils aged 11-18, plus 180 staff. The school is heated by six separate heating systems; two oil-fired and four running on gas. Some of these are 30 years old. The school’s business manager, Bryan Key, realised that they needed to do something about making the central heating system more efficient. The whole system could have been replaced, but this would be very expensive and certainly not an option in the current economic climate. The problem was that the price of oil and gas was rising at a pace faster than the rate of increase in the schools’ income. “Some of the boilers are old and have poor controls.

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