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LAUSD sustainability office outlines utility-control center, microgrids and bus electrification plan
Summary
The district's Eco Sustainability Office presented plans for a centralized energy and water command-control center, small-scale microgrids and expanded bus electrification, saying pilots and a recent energy contract could lower utility costs and help electrify nearly half the fleet.
Christos Curacilio, head of LAUSD's Eco Sustainability Office, told the Greening Schools and Climate Resilience Committee that the district is building an energy and water command-control center to centralize telemetry from school utilities and identify anomalies to speed repairs. "This is gonna be a system that we can centralize, look at all of our utilities throughout all of our schools," he said, adding that the program could cut district utility bills by about "20%" once fully implemented.
Curacilio outlined several near-term pilots and investments: microgrids at district sites, a recycled-water expansion at five schools that he said could avoid about 40,000,000 gallons of potable water and a lighting retrofit program…
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