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

year

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