Education Law

Saving money, saving energy

An article in the Ocala Star-Banner about a Florida school district got BoardBuzz?s attention with the headline ?Energy savings net Marion schools $8.7M in four years.?

Turns out an energy management program created four years ago by the Marion County School Board has saved the school district $8.7 million since the program was enacted with energy usage per square foot dropping by more than 21 percent. 

What?s even more impressive is the energy cost went down even though the school district has added 500,000 square feet of buildings since 2005!

So what are they doing? Energy saving tactics include building new energy efficient schools and facilities, going to a four-day work weeks in the summer, summer school consolidation, using automatic heating and air conditioning controls, and working with custodians to shut off lights when they complete cleaning a room.

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on June 07, 2010 (boomark / email).