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Roaring Fork schools report first-year energy savings as district reboots conservation program
Summary
Consultants and facilities staff reported verified electricity and gas savings after eight months of active energy management, with districtwide Energy Star scores rising and further savings projected next year.
Roaring Fork School District Superintendent Dr. Anna Cole and facilities staff on the evening agenda presented an energy-management update showing early savings from a renewed conservation program.
The presentation, led by consultants Charlie Haupt of New Energy Technology and Christina Matzel of CLEAR with facilities director Eric Willis, said verified billing data for the first eight months of active energy management indicates roughly $170,000 in combined electric and natural-gas savings and that the district is on track to increase savings next year.
The update matters because the district supports more than a million square feet of facility space and logged about 4,600 work orders last year; utilities are a recurring operating expense the board must account for in near-term budgets. “Having…
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