&EPA United States Environmental Protection Agency Air and Radiation 6202J Draft May 2002 ZOOZ WA 's]00cfj£ ytjqnj fauno^ (fng 'puoiuiuv]-[ Muisod acjijo pno^d osp 3^ uddq MVCJ puv fcpanodffd-isoo puv uo a •lUduiuoMaud dqi uo davq suoffd utonoq ^no o$ fyodM-p sSwavs dsdyi fcuvo dwut dimddo dm 'Amuvd v sy ' 03. pasv^d st «>EPA BULK RATE Postage and Fees Paid EPA G-35 United States Environmental Protection Agency (6202J) Washington, DC 20460 www.epa.gov Official Business Penalty for Private Use $300. 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 ------- ,^^m-, '"Afe- """, «*'.,.: 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/. W- »?'. ,>'feC. r:l_'v:iliatel1/j 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 $gg ggg 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 6/05/02 ------- |