Energy saving in Schools

There are about 32,000 schools in Germany that have an immense energy consumption! For more than 25 years, we have been working with students to reduce their school's energy consumption and thus show young people that it is important to use resources carefully.

When the project is introduced at the school, special starting values are determined. They are determined from the previous consumption of energy, water and, if applicable, waste. In this way, it can be determined later whether and to what extent savings have been achieved in the school. 

Once the necessary data has been collected, other users are involved. For this purpose, an energy team is founded, which on the one hand determines the energy saving potential of the school (through energy tours and energy-relevant measurements) and on the other hand makes the entire school public aware of the possible energy saving measures. All user groups of the school are integrated in this process. The energy team works out a savings plan to be implemented in the school. The pupils learn to use energy sparingly and to conserve resources. In addition, there are measurements of temperature distribution, graphical evaluation of the measurements, implementation of simple technical, non-investment measures, possibly changing the night, weekend and holiday reduction of the heating, decommissioning of unneeded lamps, refrigerators, hot water boilers. Various relevant information is collected and prepared for public relations activities, such as the creation of wall newspapers, information leaflets in the classes, reports in school newspapers, blogs on the school's website, regular information of the technical building managers and much more. 

UfU provides support in the form of pedagogical know-how and materials as well as technical knowledge, carries out the relevant measurements of temperature and electricity consumption as well as lighting levels at the school and organises training courses for caretakers and teaching staff. The energy consumption of the schools is documented and processed by UfU.