Blue Mountain School District
Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania
30% Improvement (2008)
Blue Mountain School District, which educates approximately 3,000 students in Orwigsburg, PA, worked with Energy Education, Inc. to implement a people-driven energy management program in 2005. This has led to a significant increase in energy efficiency and has instilled a responsible energy use ethic throughout the district's five schools.
Since its baseline year of 2005, Blue Mountain School District has achieved nearly $850,000 in energy savings. Blue Mountain School District has earned ENERGY STAR Leaders recognition for improving its energy efficiency by more than 30 percent throughout the district, and four of the district's schools have earned the ENERGY STAR for superior energy performance. The district is preventing more than 3,300 tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere annually, which is equivalent to the annual emissions from more than 550 cars.
Staff, faculty, and students in the district have implemented hundreds of improvements in energy consumption habits, such as turning off lights and computers when not in use and shutting classroom doors. Electronic monitoring of all systems ensures optimal performance. The district's energy efficiency efforts have been led by the schools energy educators or managers with ongoing on-site training and oversight from Energy Education's engineers and specialists.
