A school in SD27 (Cariboo-Chilcotin) in British Columbia is expecting to save $50k a year from a new solar energy system.
Rede Energy Solutions helped SD27 to identify opportunities for the district to save energy and money, and the Naghtaneqed Elem-Jr Secondary School was an excellent candidate for a new solar energy system.
“The district was paying about $78,000 a year for diesel fuel to power the school, which has 20 students of Chilcotin First Nations ancestry from kindergarten to Grade 10, but a capacity for up to 75,” says an article from CBC on Dec. 1, 2019.
“The fuel was also used to power a portable that houses a wood shop, three mobile homes for teachers and another building used as a health unit.”
The new solar energy system was installed at a cost of $450k, and it is expected to save the district around $50k per year by reducing diesel consumption.
Read the full article from CBC – Remote B.C. school gets most of its power from $450K solar energy system.
This isn’t the first energy management project at SD27 that has been recognized for it’s innovation and savings. In April 2019, the SD27 was recognized in a BC Climate Action Success Story for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by installing a new biomass boiler.
SD27 has been dedicated to energy management for over a decade. Over that period, the payback for all investments into efficiency is only 1.4 years.