Finding Savingswith an Energy

Conservation Program

A Best Practices Webcast forEducation Energy Professionals

Speakers• Justin Turner – Applications Engineer, SchoolDude

• Santa Fe Public Schools, NM– Lisa Randall - Energy Conservation Program

Coordinator

Agenda

• Managing Conservation and Energy Savings in Education

• Why Energy Star?• Best Practices with Lisa Randall - Santa Fe

Public Schools, NM • ConserveDirect Overview

Unmanaged vs. Managed Costs • Less Efficient Schools:

– Use 3-times more energy – Spend $60- $100 more per student per year– Have less $$$ to allocate to the classroom

• Efficient Schools:– Save 10%-15% by changing behavior or increasing awareness– Can save 5-20% by effectively managing, maintaining and

operating schools

• Savings Example:– Average utility costs = $295.13 per student– 10% savings = $29.50 per student annually– 4,000 students = $118,000 savings

• EPA voluntary climate protection partnership with energy users, serviceand product providers

• Strategic approach to energy management• Promoting energy efficient products and

practices• Helps measure, track and improve energy

performance• Helps save energy and money and protect

the environment• Brand recognized by more than 80% of

Americans

Why ENERGY STAR?

• Free, online benchmarking tool for existing buildings• Whole-building energy performance metrics based on

actual consumption data• Measures and tracks energy intensity, energy costs,

green house gas emissions, and more• Identifies top- and under-performing facilities • Easy to understand 1-to-100 score• Starting point for ENERGY STAR Certification

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What is Portfolio Manager?

SchoolDude & ENERGY STAR

• SchoolDude is a top ranked ENERGY STAR Partner for education

• UtilityDirect has integration with Portfolio Manager = ConserveDirect

With ConserveDirect You Can:

• Monitor your energy conservation programs, greenhouse gasses, and ENERGY STAR ratings

• Report on key energy statistics including ENERGY STAR rating and greenhouse gasses

• Know when ratings and levels change with automated alerts

• Plan conservation programs

Back to Basics • Validation (UtilityDirect - bill entry)

• Evaluation (UtilityDirect - bill analysis)

• Motivation (ConserveDirect)

Successful Energy Program Savings

Best Practices with Santa Fe Public Schools

Speaker: Lisa Randall – Energy Conservation

Program Coordinator

• 12,000 Students• 2.4 million square feet of building space• 60 buildings• 1,700 district staff• Conservation Staff – 1 person with support from

the facilities and operations team

• Two Year Total Savings: $232,360

Santa Fe Public Schools, NM

Challenges• Paradigm Shift – change thinking about resource

use for students, teachers, staff, community• Unreliable utility data due to distributed data

entry• Not evaluating usage, comparing facilities,

trending or using ENERGY STAR ratings• Establish accurate, reliable use and cost

information for all buildings

Solution: ConserveDirect

• Benchmark energy use and costs for each facility

• Establish a starting point to measure progress and analyze next steps

• Compare and rank facilities (KTBU, costs)• Compare usage to regional/national standards• Track the progress of conservation and

efficiency efforts

Solution: ConserveDirect

• Verify facility performance with fact-based data

• Identify and target future project needs• Improve accountability and efficiency• Taking utility demand into consideration for

renovations and new building design

Solution: ConserveDirect

• Easily generate budget projections for finance department

• Quickly generate any report for facility or service costs

• Know the true cost of operating a facility• Share results in a format everyone can

understand – ENERGY STAR

Managing Change and Implementation

• Asking students, teachers and staff to shift their perspective on the resources they consume

• Worked through transition from team inputting bills to one person, one process

• Getting bills in a timely fashion• Support from administration• Ensuring everyone understood the change

enabled a full time focus on efficiency

Involving Others in Conservation

• Publishing ENERGY STAR scores and YTD totals for Metric Tons of CO2

• Students, staff and community have access to monthly reports (by site and district-wide)

• Monthly comparison of water, natural gas and electrical use (for the past 3 years)

• Share gallons of water per student, building ENERGY STAR score and greenhouse gas emissions

Involving Others in Conservation

• Students, teachers and the community are very interested in ENERGY STAR scores

• Compare month to month usage over years– Allows them to set goals and measure progress– Generate lessons from the data

• Gives everyone the opportunity to be part of the solution

• They can see our commitment to efficiency

Report Card - All Locations by Utility

Report Card - Per Building, By Utility

www.sfps.info/index.aspx?NID=1280

Newsletter

• First Year Savings = $133,503– Reduced natural gas by 13%– Reduced electrical by 8%

• Two Year Total Savings: $230,360– Reduced natural gas by 17.6%– Reduced electrical by 9.2%– Reduced water by 12.7

Achieving Savings

Reports

Reports

Achieving More Value and Savings

• MaintenanceDirect – work orders– Communicate sources of energy/water waste

• PMDirect – preventive maintenance– Communicate PM/HVAC issues

• Communication is the key – address needs quickly and effectively

• ITDirect – technology help desk ticketing

How does ConserveDirect integrate with Portfolio Manager?

Let’s Take a Look!

Energy Conservation Made Easy –Leverage your UtilityDirect data to measure and report your success!

More Insight• The presentation and a recording of today’s webcast

will be available online tomorrow at:www.schooldude.com/resources

• Additional Resources: - 12 Steps Forward to Reducing Energy (white paper)- Energy Cost Calculator- Sample Energy Policy

Contact• Lisa Randall

Santa Fe Public Schools, NMlrandall@sfps.info

• Justin Turner, Applications Engineer, SchoolDudejustin@schooldude.com1-877-868-3833

Request a ConserveDirect demo: salesrequest@schooldude.com or www.schooldude.com/attend-demo.php