A subsidiary of Baltimore-based Constellation Energy has signed an electricity supply agreement with Fort Bend Independent School District.
Constellation NewEnergy Inc. will supply 347,644 megawatt hours of electricity to the district’s 69 campuses and other facilities, its parent company said.
A dollar value of the contract wasn’t immediately provided by either the company or the school district. The FBISD Board of Trustees approved awarding a competitive bid to Constellation at its June 8 meeting.
“Savings that we will be able to achieve on our energy will enable the school district to redirect more resources toward our core mission of educating our more than 68,000 students,” said FBISD Facilities Director Michael Johnson.
“We’re extremely pleased to be working with the Fort Bend Independent School District to control its energy costs and provide budget certainty,” said Kenny Matula, senior vice president of sales for Constellation NewEnergy.
Constellation Energy said it supplies electricity to nearly 3,000 primary and secondary schools and 300 public and private U.S. school districts.
Green Mountain Energy supplies 100% renewable electricity. Others use differing percentages of renewables. We should all know where and why we use the energy that we use. “Sustainability” is a powerful lesson for all of us to learn. The bottom line is not the cost per kilowatt hour, but the cost of UNsustainability. Lets educate ourselves, not just pretend to, at the lowest dollar cost. Coal is the least dollar cost for power, with the highest health and environmental costs.
All teachers will be required to give their lectures while on treadmills, that generate electricity, which will be routed to the grid. 8^P
Where is this energy coming from? What percentage is renewable? Education should “be education” not just teaching “about” issues. Nothing could be more important than sustainability and modeling sustainability. A good deal in education should not be entirely about “good deals,”
otherwise we find ourselves buying duplicate museums and stocking warehouses ceiling high with good deals on, now rotting, reams of papers.