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grading city facilities and historic structures
to improve lighting and HVAC systems.
Last year, that project helped save 8,200,000
KWh of energy and 6,500 CCF of natural
gas, or a savings of more than $650,000 in
annual avoided energy costs. The City uses
in-house expertise to measure the energy sav-
ings over time. They then utilize an innova-
tive funding mechanism to capture the sav-
ings and reinvest them in a fund that is used
to finance future energy-saving upgrades.
Office of SustainabilityContractMan-
ager Clint McKenzie says one of the chal-
lenges San Antonio had to overcome was ed-
ucating people on how sustainability works.
“Teaching people to do things differently is
always a challenge,” says McKenzie. In this
case, San Antonio was helped through the
creation on an online, do-it-yourself audit-
ing tool through the municipal utility, CPS
San Antonio Office of
Sustainability Group
San Antonio
Riverwalk