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25 December 2011
Results of the project on energy consumption in schools
During July-December 2011, PAUCI Foundation implemented a project “Improving Conditions for Pupils. Implementation of Demonstration Projects on Raising Awareness and Changing Behavior on Energy Consumption in Schools” with financial support of Polish Embassy in Ukraine.
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Most Ukrainian schools have installed heat meters that allow heat metering depending on the level of consumption like it is done in Europe, and not on the square meters of the building. However, almost 90% of schools don’t have any weather-based regulation linked with heat metering, and schools are heated day and night, on week-days and week-ends, wasting up to 50% of heat. The project that PAUCI Foundation implemented was aimed at installing heat regulation systems in schools, establishing comfortable temperature conditions for studying and demonstrating depth and opportunities of heat energy saving in schools.
Two schools of Cherkasy and Korosten were selected to participate in the project. The project was implemented in cooperation with the Department of Education of the Cities Government and installment of heat meters was co-financed by the City Councils (50:50). In general, co-financing from the city budgets of Cherkasy and Korosten was about 50 thousand UAH.
Aside of the technical component, education made a significant part of the school projects. High school pupils monitored water, electricity and heat consumptions in their schools using the installed meters. Monitoring results were filled in the special charts that allowed observing dynamics of energy consumption.
Besides that, pupils prepared various advices on how to save energy in everyday life and shared them with others. Based on the active pupils participation, schools received awards – new sensor taps and digital microscope kits.
Main outputs of the project, namely figures of heat energy savings in financial and physical rates, will be known at the end of winter, when the heating season will come to its end. Though, by the end of December, it is already clear that heat metering and regulation allows saving more than 25% of heat energy in schools.
Municipalities of Cherkasy and Korosten received results of thermovisual analysis made by PAUCI experts in the participating schools. Recommendations pack will assist in improving energy management in schools and approaches to repairing of buildings.
PAUCI experts conducted seminars for Cherkasy and Korosten School masters on basic and innovative approaches to energy consumption in schools, saving opportunities, choosing materials for repairing, keeping to standards of ventilation and temperature regime.
The project resulted in reducing heat energy consumption in the participating schools, teachers and pupils behavior and attitude to the energy consumption has changes and soon they will become good example for other schools of Cherkasy and Korosten.
Contact person: Vyacheslav Gusyev
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