Energy Management

The Energy Management Department provides a safe, consistent, and comfortable learning environment that supports the high-quality educational needs of the CFISD students and staff, while conserving our natural resources, and at the same time, being good stewards of the taxpayers’ money.

The Energy Management Department:

• Manages over $23 million in utility costs annually. We do this efficiently by: issuing request for proposals (RFPs) to purchase the best competitive supply energy rates, retro-commissioning, installing energy conservation measures such as LED lights and control upgrades, and by analyzing high bills and taking corrective actions whenever necessary.
• Processes an average of 10,000 after-hours scheduling requests through our calendar scheduling system every month. This intensive after-hour scheduling saves the district between $4.5-5.0 million a year.
• Participating in utility incentive programs and demand response programs, obtaining approximately $350,000 a year in rebates.
• Obtaining the Energy Star label for District buildings that qualify, collecting all the necessary bills and database information and then working alongside State Energy Conservation Office (SECO) with site visits and then Professional Engineer (PE) stamps.

The primary goal of the Energy Management Department is to provide an excellent learning environment that propels our CFISD students to excel while operating our schools at the safest most energy efficient method. The Energy Management team ensure that all buildings are operated in a similar optimal manner daily, and only used to the degree necessary. This is accomplished by installing energy efficient controls sequences and programming. In addition, managing the lighting and HVAC building automation systems through creating and entering detailed scheduling, that is downloaded into the energy management system.

• This ensures a comfortable learning environment and reduces as much energy waste as possible, by not operating air conditioning for unoccupied or near unoccupied building areas.
• By operating building equipment strategically CFISD saves money as it reduces electricity consumption (KWH) and peak demand charges (KW).
• Another benefit is reducing excessive wear on the air conditioning equipment while increasing the life cycle.