Save Energy at School

Save Energy in Your School Building & School District

Schools provide a unique opportunity to create a new generation of energy smart citizens. Through energy education, immediate energy savings can be realized by reducing obvious sources of energy waste, such as lights left on in empty rooms and computers running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Schools with effective conservation programs have reported reductions of as much as 25% in utility bills.

The best way to save energy in your school is to make it a school-wide effort. Teachers, students, facility staff, and administrators can all play an important role. If possible, enlist the support of your school district. School districts participating in the Alliance’s Green Schools Program agree to return a portion of the savings from the no-cost behavior and operations changes back to the schools that earned them—thus providing an added incentive for those schools to save energy.

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250+ Students Get Energized with Student Energy Audit Training

SEAT gives students first-hand experience analyzing how energy is used at their school. Students earn about many aspects of energy efficiency and energy auditing and conduct real audits of select areas in their school.

School Operations and Maintenance: Best Practices for Controlling Energy Costs

School districts wanting to save money and energy may want to take a look at this new manual prepared by Princeton Energy Resources International for the US Department of Energy.

Energy Saving Activities for Schools

This list of sample activities from the Alliance's Green Schools Program will give you many ideas for ways to involve your students and the school community in promoting energy awareness and saving energy in your school.

Tips for Implementing a School-Wide Energy Efficiency Program

School Retrofits

Inefficient equipment and technologies that waste scarce dollars and pollute the environment can be upgraded—an investment that typically pays for itself within a few years.