How Future Academies Centralised Energy Data and Automated SECR Reporting Across Their Schools

Overview

Future Academies is a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) running multiple schools across London. Subject to SECR requirements, they needed a way to centralise energy data across all their sites and automate their annual carbon reporting — without hiring a dedicated sustainability manager.

The challenge

Future Academies faced the challenges common to large MATs: energy data scattered across multiple schools, inconsistent billing formats from different energy suppliers, and SECR compliance requirements with no in-house sustainability expertise.

• Multi-site data collection across multiple schools with different energy suppliers • SECR compliance required as a large unquoted company • No dedicated sustainability manager or team • Limited visibility into school-level energy performance • Growing expectations from parents, governors, and DfE for environmental leadership

The solution

Climatise worked with Future Academies to centralise their energy data, automate their emissions calculations, and generate SECR-compliant reports across their entire estate.

Data Centralisation: Collected energy data from all schools into a single platform, handling different bill formats and suppliers automatically.

Automated Calculations: Scope 1 and 2 emissions calculated automatically using DEFRA factors, with school-by-school breakdowns.

SECR Reporting: One-click SECR report generation with methodology notes, intensity ratios, and energy efficiency narrative.

Staff Engagement: Energy performance dashboards shared with school leaders to drive awareness and behavioural change.

Impact

• Automated SECR reporting • Multi-site emissions tracking • School-level performance breakdowns • Staff engagement programme launched

What they said

"The platform cut our reporting time and gave us data we could actually use. We can now show parents exactly what we're doing on emissions, backed by real numbers."

— Alberta Edland, Chief Financial Officer, Future Academies

School-by-school impact

• Individual energy profiles for each school in the trust • Comparative dashboards showing relative performance • Targeted reduction plans per site based on actual data • Governor-ready environmental reports for each academy