Energy Conservation Measures

Scituate Public Schools
Recent Energy Conservation Measures

At the last Advisory Board meeting on January 25th, Mr. Bob Murray, Facilities Manager
Scituate Public Schools, presented a comprehensive summary of the steps that the district has been taking to decrease energy cost and consumption. The full report is available at the Scituate Public Schools website, http://www.scituate.k12.ma.us/. It is very interesting.

The following are some of the highlights:

Savings resulting from most of the items not quantified to date, but of the few that are quantified, the savings is at least $17, 946 district-wide.

Oil consumption reduced by turning off certain boilers.

Repairs to heating systems at Gates school to reduce oil consumption.

Using National Grid incentives, replaced light fixtures at the gyms at the High School and Gates School (installation 2/20/07) with low wattage, high lumen, flourescent lights along with motion sensors to turn off lights when gyms are not occupied.

Using National Grid incentives, replaced dilapidated lights in 12 classrooms at the High School, that had been bypassed by the renovation due to budget constraints, with more energy efficient lights.

Improved automated controls for heating and ventilation systems to increase efficiency.

Replaced simple thermostats in the modular buildings with programable digital thermostats to run heat and A/C on school schedules.

Began pilot program involving installation of fuel catalysts on several heating boilers that will reputedly reduce oil consumption.

Negotiated 3rd Party energy contracts for heating oil, natural gas, and electricity.

Utilizing the Bay State Gas Partners in Energy Program to reduce natural gas consumption.

Investigating electric company’s Demand Response program to receive a rebate on electicity fees.

Installed Vending Misers on drink vendiing machines to minimize compressor operation when building is unoccupied..