Primary School Energy Initiative

The school's Energy Tracker monitors generation, benefits and weather!

The Jurupa Primary School District in California is saving energy and creating positive results for the budget and the environment. They're doing their part to go green. They use a web tool to track their energy savings and carbon footprint reductions in their community.

The Energy Tracker displays the environmental benefits of green energy production at their facilities in terms of equivalent coal offset and homes powered along with a summary of weather data including irradiance and wind speed. The school district has begun work on the installation of solar panels  at nine of their facilities.

Solar energy is a clean and renewable energy resource and the school district is partnering with Chevron  to install over 2.7 MW of solar energy production capacity.  Solar energy will provide 27% of the district's electricity needs annually, reducing electricity costs, and reducing the school district's carbon footprint substantially.

The photovoltaic arrays will generate 406,316 KWH of electricity annually supplying approximately 45% of the schools electricity needs. The panels are placed on the support structures in the school's parking area where they have maximum sun exposure. Each of the structures also serves to provide covered parking areas. 

Other energy efficiency improvements at the campus also include high efficiency classroom lighting and the replacement of air conditioning units that have reached the end of their life cycle.