Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
My name is Carla Kleinjan and I work for the Chino Valley Unified School
District. The district serves approximately thirty thousand students
and we have thirty-five school sites. We were looking to
improve our energy efficiency. Yearly we receive a rate analysis from Southern
California Edison to help us know that we are on the best rates for our
district.
We participate in a variety of programs with Southern California Edison.
Express Solutions and Customized Solutions, specifically for our lighting projects
at a variety of our schools. We've done eighteen
different school sites that we have replaced lighting,
exterior lighting predominantly.
They also did interior lighting retrofits that qualified for Express
Solutions and vending machine controllers that basically act as
occupancy sensors for vending machines.
We've also participated in
Customized Solutions with
pool pump
replacement, variable speed drives on our pool pumps to help them run more efficiently.
There were some audits that took place to help identify
ways that the district could participate in Demand Response, making sure all of
their strategies were in place for the best participation possible.
In Critical Peak Pricing with our larger school districts,
we get notice the day before that there's going to be an event and so then
we try to reduce the amount of air conditioning that is running as soon as the
students are out of the classroom.
Chino Valley schools are enrolled in S_C_E_'s Summer Discount Plan.
They receive bill credits in exchange for permitting S_C_E_ to remotely turn off their
air conditioning units during certain hours.
Over the past three years we've
been really concentrating on reducing our energy use and we have reduced by
over twenty percent. We have
taken our cost for electricity
down from a peak of four point two million dollars to about three point two
five million dollars.
I would highly recommend any of the Demand Response and energy efficiency
programs that Southern Californian Edison offers to any business.