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Energy Conservation Guide

This guide is designed to be used by anyone at a school to help implement energy conservation goals. This is an essential Guide for schools looking to reduce the amount of energy used at your school. The SEI Energy Conservation Guide contains the information and tools necessary to establish a Green Team, set a goal, develop a plan for reducing energy consumption, establish a baseline for energy use, implement energy reduction measures, and verify reduction results. It identifies the important materials, preparation tasks, and energy audit processes and analyses to assess energy use and implement conservation campaigns. The Guide provides resources for understanding the school’s existing energy usage and strategies for reducing energy use such as delamping and reducing phantom loads. The results of the implementation of a School Conservation Action Plan can have huge impacts on energy costs and environmental impact.

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Zero Net Energy Certificate

This curriculum is designed for high school, but it can be adapted to middle school use. ​This is a design project that challenges students to redesign their school to produce as much energy as it uses. Throughout four Modules on climate change and energy production, energy efficiency and conservation, renewable energy, and clean energy careers, students will conduct an analysis of their school’s energy use, and create a School Zero Net Energy Design Proposal that integrates energy efficiency, energy conservation actions, and renewable energy into their school designs. The School Zero Net Energy Design project empowers students to become energy leaders in their community, through the creation, implementation, and presentation of plans for creating a zero net energy campus to present before their district decision-makers. Students will be awarded an SEI Sustainability Certificate upon the completion and delivery of their final ZNE report.

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Instructional Support

SEI’s team of sustainability experts and educators are available to provide tailored support to high school teachers. We can assist with planning and instruction of energy and sustainability lessons. We can also assist with the use of our energy auditing tools and with materials grants.

Beyond the Heroes for Zero competition, we offer high school teachers a whole range of curriculum, student competitions, green career events, and teacher trainings. If you are interested in any of our resources, please contact us here.