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ENERGY STAR is the government-
backed symbol for energy
efficiency. ENERGY STAR offers
organizations, businesses, and
consumers energy-efficient
solutions that save money while
protecting the environment. By
using ENERGY STAR to increase
energy efficiency at work and at
home, every individual can help
protect the environment now and
for future generations.
If your organization would like to
learn how efficient a building is,
how to remodel an existing
building to improve its energy
efficiency, or how to purchase
energy-efficient products, ENERGY
STAR can help.
To learn more about ENERGY STAR,
visit www.energystar.gov, or
call the ENERGY STAR Hotline at
1 -888-STAR-YES (1 -888-782-7937).
www.energystar.gov
ENERGY STAR* IN SCHOOLS
igh Performance Makes the Grade
As a decisionmaker in your school system,
you know that the overall performance of
your schools is the result of many successful
efforts. Strong teachers are complemented
by supportive counselors, active parents, able
program administrators, and many others.
The result is quality education for your
students.
Quality education also requires sound
financial management. Is your school
controlling energy use—one of the few costs
within its control? ENERGY STAR offers
solutions to improve energy use, including
best management practices and energy-
efficient products. Hundreds of school
districts across the country, partnering with
ENERGY STAR, have proven that energy use
can be managed. For example, after making
energy efficiency upgrades, the school districts
of Milwaukee, Philadelphia, San Diego, and
Miami-Dade County are each saving more
than $1 million per year on their utility bills.
ENERGY STAR supports your educational
mission by helping you save energy dollars
every month—dollars that can be used for
instructional needs or building maintenance.
The Opportunity for Savings
America's primary and secondary schools
spend more money on energy than on
computers and textbooks combined.
Typically, one third of this energy goes to
waste—do you know what that means in
dollars to your school district? ENERGY STAR
provides a suite of tools to enable any
school to achieve its potential in energy
performance. On average, cost-effective
energy performance improvements in
existing buildings can reduce energy bills by
25 percent.
Measuring Performance
As your students know, the education process
requires testing and measurement. Educators
test to ascertain baseline levels of knowledge,
to compare student performance to state or
national standards, to measure improvement,
and to know where to focus future efforts.
ENERGY STAR provides you with tools to do
the same for the energy performance of
school buildings. For example:
Portfolio manager is ENERGY STAR'S online
tool for tracking building energy consumption,
costs, and associated emissions over time.
It gives you baseline data to manage the
energy use in your facilities portfolio on an
ongoing basis, set building performance goals,
prioritize upgrade work, and measure progress.
Included in portfolio manager is the national
building energy performance rating system,
which measures or benchmarks the energy
performance of individual school buildings on
a scale of 1 to 100. The score shows how a
building compares to others in your district
and nationwide. As of April 2002, more than
4,200 schools have been benchmarked. Visit
www.energystar.gov/benchmark.
Making Improvements
• Financing Improvements: School districts
across the United States have financed
replacement lights, roofs, windows,
boilers, chillers, and other energy-saving
investments without taking on new debt.
Through ENERGY STAR's Internet
presentations and regional workshops,
school decisionmakers can learn about a
variety of innovative financing options.
Visit www.yosemitel.epa.gov/estar/
business.nsf7content/govt_resources_IP.htm.
• Technical Assistance: The ENERGY STAR
five-stage approach to building upgrades is
a technical roadmap schools can follow to
improve the energy performance of their
buildings. ENERGY STAR's Building
Manual provides detailed instructions
for making buildings more energy
efficient. Download the Manual from
www.energystar.gov after selecting "For
Your Business" and then "Resources."
• Institutional Purchasing: School districts
depend on appliances, office equipment,
and electronics functioning well. Because
the ENERGY STAR label appears on more
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than 30 categories of products, it's easy to
identify and choose the most efficient
models. ENERGY STAR even provides
calculators to conduct your own life-cycle
cost analysis and draft language for your
procurement policies. Visit www.epa.gov/
nrgystar/purchasing/2d_products.html/.
Monitor Power Management: School
districts can save energy and money by
enabling power management on their
computer monitors. Free software provided
by EPA automatically puts monitors to sleep
when not in use. For every 100 monitors,
enabling monitor power management
could save your organization approximately
20,000 kWh per year. This amounts to
$1,700 per year saved at 8.5 cents/kWh.
Monitor power management will not affect
your computer or network performance; a
simple touch of the mouse or keyboard
"wakes" the machine within seconds.
Whether your district has 20 computers or
1,000, ENERGY STAR can help. Visit
www. energystar. gov/powermanagement/.
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Recognizing Success
• The ENERGY STAR label: Each school that
scores 75 or better using portfolio manager,
while maintaining indoor air quality that
meets or exceeds industry standards, is
eligible to apply for the ENERGY STAR
label—a bronze plaque to display on the
school. As of April 2002, 293 schools had
earned this distinction.
• Telling Your Success Story: As your school
district implements ENERGY STAR'S
offerings and starts reaping the benefits of
improved energy performance, you'll want
to communicate your success. Through
ENERGY STAR, you'll have the opportunity
to network with other partners, develop
case studies about your energy management
program, download templates for press
releases and newsletters, receive guidance
on event planning, and compete for
national awards.
ENERGY STAR is a voluntary partnership,
created by the federal government to provide
schools, businesses, organizations, and
consumers with energy-efficient solutions that
save money while protecting the environment
now and for future generations. You can make
a difference with ENERGY STAR.
The Cost of Delaying Upgrades
School officials often feel that postponing the installation of energy efficiency equipment until the operating or capital budget
dollars are available—rather than financing the installation immediately (a tax-exempt lease-purchase agreement, a performance
contract, etc.)—is a better financial decision. They reason that if internal budget dollars are used, paying interest can be avoided
completely. However, delaying the installation will delay the point at which energy savings can begin.
The first set of data below illustrate how much you would pay needlessly in one year to your local utility if you chose to delay
implementing energy upgrades. The second set shows project financing costs over 7 years.
OUTCOME: If project is delayed by
one year, the additional money paid to
local utility = $99,996 (12 x $8,333)
OUTCOME: You save more money in
the first year by implementing energy
upgrades than you would pay in interest
over the 7-year financing period.
Comparing the two, the dollars lost by waiting for one year are greater than the total financing charges paid out over 7 years.
On a net present value basis, the difference is even greater. Using third-party financing initially and paying it off early with
approved future budget dollars is yet another way to save more money.
Download a copy of ENERGY STAR'S new paper "Finding Money For Your Energy Efficiency Projects" by going to
www.energystar.gov. Click on "For Schools," choose "Resources," and then select "Energy Management and Practices."
National Building Energy Performance Rating System
Project
Value
$500,000
Project
Value
$500,000
Payback period
for investment
5 years
Interest rate on
lease-purchase
financing
5 percent
Average monthly
savings on energy bills
$8,333 ($500,000 4- 60 months)
Financing term
7 years
Average yearly savings
on energy bills
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Total intest paid
over 7 years
in absolute dollars
$93,624
The national building energy
performance rating system
became available for schools in
2000. To earn the ENERGY
STAR label, schools must be
among the top 25 percent
most efficient in the country while maintaining
indoor air quality that meets or exceeds industry
standards. As of April 2002, 293 schools in the
following districts had earned the ENERGY STAR
label.
San Diego Unified School District California
Academy School District 20 Colorado
Boulder Valley Public Schools Colorado
Jefferson County School District Colorado
Poudre School District Colorado
New Haven Public Schools Connecticut
Monticello School District Illinois
Stevenson High School District 125 Illinois
Healthy, Efficient Schools
ENERGY STAR is committed to energy efficiency and
a healthy learning environment. School facility
managers can combine energy efficiency measures and
good indoor air quality (IAQ) for compatible whole-
dins improvements with the help of EPA's paper:
Summary of ENERGY STAR'S Tools and
Resources
For general information about ENERGY STAR,
visit www.energystar.gov. Select "For Schools" on
the left navigation bar.
Kansas City Public Schools Kansas
Boston Public Schools Massachusetts
Wyandotte School District Michigan
Elk River Area Schools Minnesota
Moose Lake Public Schools Montana
Sleepy Eye Public Schools Montana
Columbia Public Schools Missouri
East Rockaway Public Schools New York
Smithtown Central School District New York
Watertown School District New York
Springfield Local School District Ohio
Yankton School District South Dakota
Crocket County CCSD Texas
McAllen Independent School District Texas
Jordan School District Utah
Marion Public Schools West Virginia
Milwaukee Public Schools Wisconsin
"Energy Efficiency and Indoor Environmental
Quality in Schools." Download the file from
www.energystar.gov by selecting "For Schools" and
then "Resources." Or for a copy, call the ENERGY STAR
Hotline at 1-888-STAR-YES (1-888-782-7937).
To become an ENERGY STAR partner, visit
www.epa.gov and click on "Join Now."
To use portfolio manager or the ENERGY STAR
performance rating system, visit www.energystar.
gov/benchmark.
To participate in ENERGY STAR Internet
presentations from your desk, visit www.epa.gov/
buildings/schools and click on "Participate in one
of our ENERGY STAR Internet Presentations"
under "What's New?"
For procurement policy language and other
information on purchasing ENERGY STAR
products, visit www.epa.gov/nrgystar/
purchasing/2d_products.html/.
Questions? Contact Melissa Payne, ENERGY STAR
National Manager, Education Sector, by e-mail at
Payne.Melissa@epa.gov, or call the ENERGY STAR
Hotline at 1-888-STAR-YES (888-782-7937).
Through ENERGY STAR
your students and staff
can have a well-lit, well-
ventilated learning and
teaching environment.
The health and comfort
of students and teachers
are among the many
factors that contribute to
learning and productivity
in the classroom,
which in turn affect
performance and
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