The Earth Rangers Centre facility team had a target of 10% energy savings for the 2011 calendar year over 2010. The numbers are in, and we surpassed our goal! We achieved a 17.8% savings over 2010, despite an increase in heating requirements. This equates to 123,000 kWh, enough power to supply 9 and a half average Canadian homes for a year!
Much of these energy savings can be attributed to the activation of the geothermal, integration of the new building automation system with metering and monitoring and innovative geothermal cooling used in the summer months.
The geothermal heating allowed us to reduce our gas consumption by 87%, drastically reducing the carbon footprint of the building’s operations.
We are targeting another 10% off 2011 consumption numbers and have some more tricks up our sleeve for the coming year – a lighting control retrofit, security integration and time of day load shedding of large loads.
