Berkeley Lab Researchers Release Guide to Financing Energy Upgrades for K-12 School Districts

Energy costs K-12 schools in the U.S. $6 billion dollars annually. Spending less money on energy costs would leave more for funding-constrained school districts to spend on educating their students, according to researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

 Public and private financing is available, but navigating the complicated landscape of grants, bonds, leasing arrangements and other types of financing can be difficult for school administrators and facilities managers, who are not necessarily experts in financing for energy efficiency and renewables.

Researchers Merrian Borgeson and Mark Zimring, in Berkeley Lab’s Environmental Energy Technologies Division (EETD), have released a guide on planning and financing comprehensive energy upgrades that involve multiple measures and are targeted toward achieving significant and persistent energy savings.

Written for school district administrators

The guide is written explicitly for school administrators, facilities managers, and others in K-12 education management. It covers different options for public and private financing approaches, and contains numerous case studies of school district projects. The authors provide explanations of financial terms and mechanisms.

[an error occurred while processing this directive]Read the rest:
http://eetd.lbl.gov/news/article/55407/berkeley-lab-researchers-release-guide-to-financing-energy-upgrades-for-k-12-scho

or here:
http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/04/02/berkeley-lab-researchers-release-guide-to-financing-energy-upgrade-for-k-12-school-districts/

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