Greening Canada’s K-12 Schools
As a program participant, you can:
• Use the online Green Building Performance System to help maximize energy, water and emissions savings in your buildings
• Benchmark actual energy and water use against comparable schools
• Engage your staff and students in the performance and progress of your buildings
• Assess the potential for LEED EB:OM certification for your buildings
• Access and contribute to performance standards, baselines and best practices for school buildings
• Make use of the Building Performance Audit to uncover conservation opportunities

Making Savings
Results as of December 31, 2011
numbers in ( ) are increases
  Savings 2011
(vs. 2010)
Savings Percent Savings 2011
(vs. 2009)
Savings Percent
Electricity 369 MWh 2.2 % 371 MWh 2.2 %
Demand 2 MW 4.0 % (0) MW (0.2) %
Thermal 2,396 eMWh 5.8 % 883 eMWh 2.2 %
Total energy 2,764 eMWh 4.8 % 1,253 eMWh 2.2 %
Water 2 10m3 10.1 % 2 10m3 9.1 %
Greenhouse gas emissions (CO2e) 377 tonnes 15 tonnes
Energy Cost Savings $ 117,939 $ 66,933
Not all participant buildings are reporting in all years or in all categories. Savings are reported on a net basis.
What's new?
Using the system, you can view total carbon emissions for your organization and for each your participating buildings. Go to Benchmark report and select Data type: GHG equivalent, Units: tonnes.
Participants
Ontario Number of boards: 9 Number of buildings: 77
British Columbia Number of boards: 5 Number of buildings: 91
Alberta Number of boards: 4 Number of buildings: 40
Newfoundland and Labrador Number of boards: 3 Number of buildings: 30
Nova Scotia Number of boards: 1 Number of buildings: 10
Quebec Number of boards: 1 Number of buildings: 1
Saskatchewan Number of boards: 8 Number of buildings: 78
Yukon Number of boards: 1 Number of buildings: 3
Total number of boards: 32 Total number of buildings: 330