Energy Crisis in Education

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Energy Crisis in Education

• What Are Your Options???

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The Situation

• Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates
  demand for natural gas to increase 38 by 2025
• In 2005 alone, natural gas costs have increased
  by 40 to 60
• Recent electricity cost increases of 5 to 10 -
  becoming a trend

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Energy Price Trends
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Historical Coal Prices
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KY State Energy Bill 220 million
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Judicial Branch
State Government
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Education K-12
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Post Secondary Schools
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Its time to focus on conservation!
Energy Intensive

• Sixth highest per capita primary energy
  consuming state in the nation
• Third in the nation for electric industrial
  intensity (kWh per customer)
• Industrial intensity- 268 percent above national
  average
• Eighth in the nation for electric residential
  intensity
• (kWh per customer)
• Residential intensity - 26 percent above
  national average

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Impact for Education

• Increased pressure on General Fund
• High Energy Costs
• High Fuel Costs
• Salaries and Insurance
• For a medium-size district, utility costs will
  rise by 50,000 to 100,000
• Contingency to be source paying for added costs

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Minimizing the Impact

• Understand how you use energy in your schools
• Heating and Air Conditioning
• Lights
• Kitchen
• Domestic Water Heating
• Plug Loads (Computers, Office Equipment, etc.)

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Energy Cost Usage Breakdown
Based on natural gas as source for heating
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Minimizing the Impact There is Help!

• Limited opportunities to address unit energy
  costs (bulk purchasing and futures)
• Reducing consumption of energy (not at the
  expense of comfort) is the best way mitigate
  costs
• Prioritize energy reducing opportunities based on
  best return

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Do your Facilities make the Grade?

• A simple exercise will help you prioritize your
  greatest opportunities
• Convert your annual energy units (KWH MCF) to
  BTUs
• Divide by square footage and rank from high to
  low
• Attack the worst first

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Short Term Low Cost / No Cost Measures

• Raise Awareness with Faculty Students
• Lower thermostats (every degree makes a
  difference)
• Turn off lights
• Keep doors and windows closed
• Minimize a Leaky Building
• Window caulking
• Door Seals
• Tune up your System
• Night set-back (if you have a capable system)
• Furnace / Boiler Efficiency test and adjustment
• Do the Proper Maintenance
• Change filters
• Clean coil surfaces
• Fix broken thermostats

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Long Term Facility Improvements
Standard ranking of highest to lowest pay back
ratio

• Building Automation System
• Manage occupancy schedule
• Minimize energy without sacrificing comfort
• Lighting Upgrades
• High Efficiency lamps and ballasts
• Convert to Geothermal Heat Pump Systems
• 48 more efficient than the very best natural gas
  system
• Renewable energy source
• Today, costs four (4) times less to operate
• Building Insulation
• Roof
• Crawl Spaces
• Window Replacement
• High E with thermal break