PAUCI Foundation has been implementing projects to promote energy efficiency since 2007. Research and action projects that were implemented by PAUCI demonstrate that there is a possibility to reduce heating energy consumption in communal buildings – kindergartens, schools, hospitals – in 77%. Expereience of some Ukrainian cities proves that energy saving effect can be reached through modernization of the building and change of behavior of energy consumers.
The aim of the project is to reduce energy consumption in the selected schools through installation of heating regulation technical devices, monitoring of energy consumption in schools , change of pupils and staff behavior concerning energy consumption and sharing project results with other schools and cities of Ukraine.
Two schools – one from Chercassy and another one from Pervomaisk are involved in the project.
Within the project it is planned to:
1. Install heat counters with weather depending regulation in 2 schools of the project. This will allow to controls heating intensiveness in the premises of the schools depending on the temperature outside as well as to save costs for heating of the building during days-off, holidays, at nights and in other time when children are not at school.
2. Attract pupils and staff to monitoring of energy consumption in schools. Children will watch and register indicators of heating, water and electricity consumption with the use of special devices, fill in special school charts, watch dynamics of expenditures in graphic format to understand the potential of economy.
3. Publish manuals with practical advice on correct approaches to consumption of heating energy, electricity, ventilation, water consumption in schools, etc.
4. Organize a training seminar for teachers of the cities on main approaches to energy consumption in communal buildings in the city; and carry out thermovisual analysis of the school buildings
It is expected that these pilot projects in Cherkasy and Pervomaisk will have influence on other schools of these cities and will become example of using new approaches to energy consumption.
