Howard County Public School System

Diane SweeneyCEM, Energy Management Specialist

Energy Conservation

Saving Energy

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Saving the Environment

• How do we make a difference everyday to continue the green effort?

• Are you the “green” team members in the journey to conserve natural resources, who will reduce the need for landfills, save energy, reduce pollution, and sustain the environment?

• It’s really easy to reduce energy at home and at work.

Green Efforts

• Engaging students in applying math, reading, writing, and science skills in a meaningful way that research supports improves achievement

• Supporting a process that is a natural PDSA fit as a way to help students and teachers understand continuous improvement

• Showing students that they can make a difference in saving the environment and saving money

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• A Quick Home Energy Check-up – Up to six compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) – Two faucet aerators – Efficient-flow showerhead – Water heater pipe insulation (installed on hot and cold pipes for

six feet from water heater)

– Water heater tank wrap (electric water heaters only)

http://www.bgesmartenergy.com/appointments/3/add

or call 877.685.SESP (7377) to schedule your Check-up today!

Recommended Conservation

Measures

Use drapes as blankets for windows. Close shades and/or blinds at night to reduce heat loss through window areas in winter and during the day to keep solar heat out in summer months. Proper air flow is essential to the performance of your heating and cooling.

Recommended Conservation

Measures

Operate fans in bathrooms or kitchens only when needed.

Overhead fans should be used only when a person is in the room ~ makes a person FEEL more comfortable.

Recommended Conservation

Measures

Turn lights off whenever any area or room is not in use. Reduce lighting, particularly on bright days, by turning off those lights nearest the window walls, if possible. Use a desk/task lamp.

Recommended Conservation

MeasuresComputers should be turned off. The heat the computer generates when left on wears down the computer parts faster than turning the equipment on and off.– the monitor if you aren't going to use your PC for more than 20

minutes or both monitor and CPU if more than 2 hours. In Windows XP go to Start > Control Panel > Power Options On a Mac go to System Preferences > Energy Saver

Power-Down or Sleep Mode Features

• PCs come with a sleep mode feature for the CPU and monitor

• Consume 15 Watts in sleep mode (around 70% less)

• Make sure you have the power-down feature set up on your PC through your operating system software. This has to be done by you, otherwise the PC will not power down.

• Note: Screen savers are not energy savers. Using a screen saver may in fact use more energy than not using one, and the power-down feature may not work if you have a screen saver activated. In fact, modern LCD color monitors do not need screen savers at all.

More Energy Less EnergyReady to be used Sleep /Standby

Desktop Laptop

Faster processor Slower processor

Older processor Newer processor(Pentium, G3/G4/G5) (Core Duo)

PC Mac

Heavy use Light use (all drives spinning, processor-intensive task) (e.g., email, word processing)

On the Internet Offline

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. In

fact, it’s the only thing that ever has.”Margaret Mead

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