Energy Efficient Schools

Welcome to Energy Efficient Schools. This webguide for school trustees, principals, teachers, students, caretakers and energy managers has been developed by NERI in partnership with The Enviroschools Foundation, the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority and funded by the Ministry of Education.

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Using This Guide

This guide outlines why and how schools can reduce energy use and cost. It provides case studies on how individual schools have already implemented energy efficiency measures. It also provides downloadable templates for recording and monitoring energy use and planning for energy efficiency changes. These templates will be further developed and more tools added to this site in the future.

This guide can be used as a teaching resource. Those schools that have built energy efficiency into the curriculum have been especially successful in making change to their energy-use practices. Further teaching resources will be added in the future.

This guide aims to assist schools to:

improve energy efficiency
move towards sustainability, and
model good energy-efficiency practice.

Making change to a school’s energy-efficiency practices may be coordinated by the principal, property manager, caretaker, or a teacher. However, successful schools tend to involve the whole school and involve students throughout the process.

Change to energy-efficiency practices will affect more than your school – through modelling good practice, it will affect New Zealand’s future.