County BOE considering energy plans – Times-Georgian: News

The Carroll County Board of Education will decide Tuesday whether to enter a self-funding energy conservation plan that will take either six or eight years to pay off.

After a months-long energy audit of all the system’s facilities, a representative from Georgia Power Energy Services came before the board at its meeting last week and presented its options. Earlier this year, the board hired Georgia Power to conduct the audit, knowing that the company would present options for improved conservation and energy efficiency.

Matt Otani, director of institutional sales for Georgia Power, told the board that the schools are “running pretty efficiently right now,” but that there were some elements that could be changed to save more money.

The board will be voting between two options Otani presented — as well as a third option to not enter into an energy plan at all, though the Georgia Power audit has already been paid for — (1) a high-positive cash flow option, in which savings would take a little more than six years to catch up with the cost, and (2) a self-funding solution, which would take almost eight years until it was paid off with savings.

The vote will be held Tuesday at a called board meeting at 6 p.m., according to a public notice sent out Thursday.

Energy conservation measures analyzed included lighting, irrigation, water conservation, building automation and heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC). Otani said lighting would be the “big payback item.”

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