Using both experience and innovation, EnSight will provide your school with a significant level of energy cost savings, flexibility and innovation, that is proven and tested in Queensland Schools. We have worked with Education Queensland for two years and have been pivotal in this industry for over 20 years. EnSight is perfectly placed to assist schools gets the optimum results from the National Solar Schools Program (NSSP) grants.
We have practical and proven solutions that will make a big difference not only to our environment, but also to your bottom line.
Our most cost savvy package destroys the myth that the best use of this NSSP funding lies with installing 5kW of Solar. At best, the 5kW Solar option will save your school $1100 per year.
What about 35% in cost savings? With energy prices predicted to soar by 30% in the coming years, this is the critical component for schools already stretched budgets.
SPENT YOUR NSSP FUNDS?
We can tailor a solution to suit your school. Depending on the size and location of your school, an energy audit, report, workshop and energy management plan will typically cost between $3450 and $6450...and you'd be able to recoup this within the first year.
Our Promise to You:
Reliable, tested, innovative solutions that meet and exceed the needs of the NSSP
Up to 25% Reduction in your school electricity use by technology change alone
Capacity to build whole of school culture around environmental responsibility and improve your green credentials even further
Effective and simple solutions with worlds best practice energy technology
PLUS
Our support to manage this project from start to finish
Full handover to staff and students of our state of the art data collection, storage and visualization technology
Key Benefits:
Comprehensive energy audit
2kW Solar PV System providing you with 3,000kWh p.a.
Lighting Retrofit that will surprise your bottom line
Smart Metering for accurate Green and Black energy use
Your own custom website that displays all your energy use in real time
Wide range of resources to implement behavioural change and educational outcomes
Solar
Our package includes the mandatory 2kW Solar Power System as per NSSP Guidelines. This is an important component of the program best used in conjunction with an energy strategy that encompasses other significant energy efficient components.
Lighting
Lighting retrofit will make a difference to your bottom line! Our recent report to Education Queensland revealed just how much the impact that lighting has on a school's energy use.
A lighting retrofit is the most important factor in helping you achieve as much as 25% savings on your power bill. Our lighting solution is based on a proven and accepted approach used with Education Queensland. Add to this our behavioural change resources and you are really on the path to a green school saving up to 40% of your power costs.
Smart Metering
The GreenMeter clearly sets the standard in Smart Metering. Successfully installed in Queensland State Schools, the GreenMeter now delivers well above compliance for the NSSP. Here's how;
Complying with the National Solar Schools Program objectives and putting your school ahead as a green school
Gives teachers and students powerful sources of information about their own school's energy consumption patterns and, with solar power installed information on their own Green Power
Enables a cost effective way to install and operate an energy monitoring system previously many more times expensive
Delivers easy to use displays providing powerful analytical tools as well as interactive multimedia elements
Constantly updates the school's energy consumption and production figures and shares this information with other schools
Provides a direct energy data feed to your own school's customised web site either via wireless or Ethernet connection to the Internet
Offers reliable collection of energy data that can be safely viewed, analysed and stored on either your local PC, the GreenMeterTM for up to one year, or on specially provided, dedicated remote Internet server
The GreenMeterTM will suit your school and be a perfect way to help your students and teachers make sense of the energy debate and understand climate change in their own context.
Schools Energy Efficiency Manual
Included in our schools package is our Schools Energy Efficiency Manual - A specialist report for schools to reduce energy waste and establish best practice energy efficiency measures. This will greatly assist your school community taking ownership of environmental factors and thier economic consequences.
Renewable Energy Certificates
A nice sideline to this project is the REC's your school can earn which can provide school income up to $1200 per annum. Another great component to use in the classroom.
GreenMeter Testimonials
We have installed the GreenMeterTM in a number of schools in Queensland to help evaluate its performance for Australian classrooms. Here are some testimonials:
"Schools that provide the best education are schools that embed Climate Responsive Solutions into every students everyday learning. The EnSight School Solution package, already used in Education Queensland five trial solar schools, provides the ideal vehicle for this to be achieved"
~ Rod Welford, Former Minister for Education.
"The GreenMeterTM's website allows us to see the results of alternative energy usage rather than simply speculating on what should happen... Having access to a working solar energy producer and demonstrable outcomes makes the work we already do on alternative energy so much easier to analyse. Students see the outcomes in terms of energy savings, cost savings and carbon footprint reduction rather than simply discussing them. This is a great advantage to both students and the teacher. I think that this would be of great benefit as both a teacher resource, and a site for wider analysis of the technology by students."
"Looks really cool. Perfect for students to monitor and record data if they're doing some sort of environmental unit, or just for the hell of it too to raise awareness. I just looked now and today's was really low in comparison. That either shows how little we used fans or something else today or shows how much electricity we use overnight ..."
Please contact us to discover how we can assist your school to save on rising energy costs AND become more energy savvy!
