Electricity consumption measurements at State schools first became available
via a pilot implementation of a whole-of-Victorian-government environmental
data system in DEECD in May 2013. While measurements are collected at a campus
level, this dataset aggregates data geographically by Local Government Area
(LGA). This aggregation not only ensures that individual schools remain
unidentified, but also presents a summary of overall electricity usage within
particular geographic localities. In addition, median usage is presented
instead of average (mean) values to account for extreme levels of consumption
that can give a skewed indication of overall LGA usage.
While there are figures for nearly all LGAs there are some for which no values
are shown. This may be due to insufficient or non-available data, or to ensure
confidentiality of individual schools in LGAs with a small number of schools.