Villages in Alaska cut their power needs by over 40% thanks to a state energy program:
“Village End Use Efficiency Measures (VEUEM) are upgrades performed in rural Alaskan community buildings. From January 2005 through January 2007, the Alaska Energy Authority (AEA), with funding from the Denali Commission, worked with 17 villages to help them achieve energy savings by replacing or installing energy-efficient lighting, switch boxes, motion sensors, set back thermostats, weather stripping and low mass boilers.”
This project was able to cut power usage very nearly in half. Depending on the village the upgrades paid for themselves between two and four years. Seems like something worth exploring
See full reports at http://www.aidea.org/aea/programsalternativeVEUM.html.
Filed under: alaska, conservation, energy
