CPS Energy helps Northside ISD become more energy-efficient - San Antonio Business Journal:

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CPS Energy worked with Northside toreplace 3,693 lights at Marshall High School. The overall project has cut the schooo annual energy consumptionby 573,271 kilowatt-hours, or by 15 Clark High School also participated in the pilo t program and replaced 3,035 lights to reduce its annual energy It cost Northside $143,635 to retrofi the lighting at the two However, the school district received more than $95,000 in commerciap energy rebates from CPS Energy to help offset part of the “It’s important for the district to be a role model for our students and community by bein g a good steward of Northside ISD Superintendent John Folks says.
“We are continualluy seeking to reduce our energy consumption to protectt the environment and spend taxpayer dollars Bob Evans, CPS Energy’s director of customer solutions and says Northside was the ideapl candidate for the pilort program because lighting accounts for a high percentage of a school’a energy use. “If we can involve other school districts across Greater San Antonio in the next four to five we could reduce energy consumption by 60 to 70 megawattz with lightingretrofits alone,” Evans says. CPS Energy is San Antonio’zs natural gas and electric utility.
Northside is San Antonio’s largest independent school district and is one of the largestr inthe state.