Board backs move to seek RFP for energy performance contract to address deferred maintenance

Granville County Public Schools board members agreed to move the district into the request‑for‑proposals (RFP) phase for a proposed performance contracting project after a detailed presentation from Graham Lewis of Schneider Electric.

Lewis described a performance contracting approach enabled by state law that allows a pre‑certified company to guarantee utility and operations savings; the guaranteed savings can be used to finance capital upgrades without an immediate local tax increase. "If we say that the school district is gonna save $400,000 a year, and for 1 of those years, you only save $300,000 we have to actually write you a check for $100,000 to cover the difference," Lewis said, describing the legal guarantee embedded in the program.

Lewis presented an energy conservation measure matrix covering all district sites and recommended priorities that include centralized building automation systems, district‑wide LED…