Carroll County Public School Division (CCPSD) has saved more than one million dollars on energy costs by employing energy conservation and education company Energy Education Inc. In the year 2003 till 2004 the division spent more than $550,000 on expenses related to energy. In this year it initialized the contact with Energy Education Inc. to implement its Cost Avoidance Program (CAP) software to be able to record and follow what was spent as well as how one could avoid those expenses. Its goal was to save resources and to decrease the budget cost for its energy consumption.
According to Bob Martin, coordinator of Energy Conservation, the energy consumption of the schools has declines significantly and monitoring them has made the CAP program a long lasting success. It did not only meet expectations but exceeded them by almost 100%. “Implementing the program has saved CCPSD over $1,000,000 in energy costs since November 2003. Our goal of a 10% savings that first year ended up being 18%. The Carroll County Division budget for energy is now over 1 million per year; however, our schools are running a 19% savings per year,” said Martin.
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