RSSMore Upper Peninsula High School Districts Want to Become Project EverGREEN Schools
Apr 25
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Clean Green Energy (CGE) announced that eight more high school districts have signed long-term power purchase agreements for integrated renewable energy systems at their schools; bringing the total to sixteen from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Recent additions include Iron Mountain, Brimley, DeTour, Pickford, Rudyard, Rock Mid-Peninsula, Munising, and Powers-North Central. All of the school districts want to become Project EverGREEN Schools(TM) and participate in the national program.
To meet Project EverGREEN Schools(TM) program qualifications, CGE will design and provide an integrated EverGREEN System of alternative energy generation and efficiency applications including McKenzie Bay International’s www.mckenziebay.com WindStor® wind turbine. CGE will own, install, maintain & operate the system at the customer’s facility and sell all electricity to the school’s facility at or slightly below existing retail rates. Schools have no capital costs.
Iron Mountain Superintendent Dennis Chartier stated, “The Project EverGREEN Schools(TM) program provides a hands-on learning experience teaching energy literacy to our students and community. Our graduates will be better prepared to face the challenges of diminished resources and capable of finding solutions through renewable energy generation/distribution and efficiency options. CGE makes this all possible by reducing our costs and providing student scholarships.”
Project EverGREEN Schools(TM) is the national education initiative of Partners GREEN (Group for a Renewable Energy Efficient Nation), a nonprofit organization. It is the gateway for information and resources on renewable energy, energy efficiency, environment, and climate literacy in the schools sector. The goal is to help provide a healthy, high-performing learning environment for our nation’s students while creating a culture of responsible change in the design, construction, retrofitting, maintenance and operation of America’s schools.
Partners GREEN launched a “Say Yes to Green Schools” petition www.partnersgreen.org in November 2008, calling for a national renewable energy standard that removes all barriers to entry for onsite generation by third parties. Signatories to date represent more than 18 million people including 142 Michigan high schools districts. Partners GREEN plans to deliver the petition to President Obama in the near future.