K-12 School Districts
Sector: K-12 School Districts
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Energy is an expense schools can reduce to free up educational resources. Energy efficiency offers the potential to redirect significant savings back to educating students, as K-12 schools and higher education institutions respectively spend $8 billion and $6.5 billion annually on energy. Energy-efficient schools establish a safe, healthy, and productive environment for learning, offering a unique opportunity to serve as a living laboratory for students to understand and benefit from new technologies first-hand. |
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2016 Progress Report
Since 2011, Better Buildings Challenge partners and energy efficiency commitments have tripled, resulting in energy cost savings that now exceed the $1.3 billion mark, and the sharing of hundreds of proven solutions.
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Through the Better Buildings Challenge, 310 public and private sector organizations across the country are working together to share and replicate positive gains in energy efficiency.
Featured Solutions
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Better Buildings Challenge K-12 Partners are using innovative approaches to make energy efficiency an operations and maintenance priority. Energy efficiency offers the potential to redirect significant savings back to educating students while... |
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In an effort to reduce resource consumption, address rising energy bills, and become a model for environmental stewardship, Camas School District in the State of Washington, wanted to set reduction targets for natural resources at all area schools. However,... |
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A Lesson Plan in Financing K-12 Energy Efficiency Implementation Model Nevada’s Douglas County School District (DCSD), the sixth largest in the state with 6,000 students, faced a limited budget, declining revenues, and rising utility costs. With limited access to taxpayer funds, DCSD decided to implement a multi... |
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Hybrid Funding Approach Makes the Grade Implementation Model Portland Public Schools funded energy efficiency measures through a hybrid Energy Savings Performance Contracting model combining Recovery Zone Economic Development Bonds for smaller, owner managed projects.
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Creating A Culture Of Energy Efficiency Implementation Model Poudre School District executed a strategic communications and outreach campaign illustrating the value of infrastructure and efficiency upgrade projects.
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