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Article: FPL Services to Save Lee County Schools $8.2 Million in Energy Costs over the Next 10 Years.
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- Energy Weekly News
- Article date:
- October 17, 2008
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FPL Services has won a contract with the Lee County School Board to dramatically improve energy efficiency at 25 schools, saving the district $8.2 million over 10 years. Under the contract, FPL Services will design, build and help finance comprehensive energy conservation upgrades at the schools. The conservation measures are projected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by nearly 64,000 tons over 10 years, which is the equivalent of taking more than 10,000 cars off the road for a year or planting roughly 1.5 million trees.
Lee County Schools will not have to spend any current capital budget dollars to fund these energy and water resource conservation ...