School slashes energy costs
May 1st 2007 Lighting controls introduced at
Mascalls School in Paddock Wood,
Kent, have helped cut energy costs
and reduced the school's carbon
footprint.
In March 2006 Kent County
Council engaged with a number of
schools to encourage them to take
up an Energy Loan Fund provided
by Kent County Council and Salix
Finance that allows schools to
borrow money to invest in energy
measures that reduce carbon
automatic lighting controls. It is
also considering a wind turbine.
Electricity savings have been
achieved by the installation of
lighting control systems from
Setsquare's Liteminder and
InfraPOD ranges. Controls are
installed into the wiring of existing
lighting circuits and sensors
positioned to detect occupancy. In
addition, photocells are installed in
areas where there are high levels
of natural daylight, switching off
lights when this exceeds a pre-set
level.
The amount of lighting on
automatic control is 47.9kW.
For normal school hours,
estimated running costs are
£9920 per year. However with
more than 40% saving in energy
through the lighting controls, this is
reduced to £5950, a saving of
£3970 in running costs and a
reduction of 23 300kg of CO2 per
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