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Description
The project focuses on energy savings in social services facilities and especially in residential social services facilities, ie PCBs, Homes for the elderly, LDN (Long-term care centers), hospitals, hospices, Youth Homes, Diagnostic institutes, etc. These facilities are, due to the nature of their operation , burdened by significant operating costs for energy consumption (continuous heating, high hot water consumption) and at the same time there is a significant potential for energy savings. In recent years, EkoWATT has been analyzing energy consumption in several types of social services facilities and, based on this experience, has developed principles for simple energy management suitable for these facilities and an analysis of suitable energy saving measures for this type of facility. The savings achieved by the introduction of EnM can reach about 10% of consumption.
The main goal: to reduce energy consumption in social services facilities, especially residential and other public buildings such as school facilities
Expected benefits for the target group:
• Reduction of operating costs in social services facilities and schools, • Maintaining low heating consumption after the implementation of cost-saving measures, • Increasing the awareness of managers and operational staff of social services facilities and schools on energy management issues and how to implement it. introduction of energy management
Activities:
• 2 one-day courses lasting 4 hours
• editorially edited video presentations from the seminar
• Seminar for operators of social services facilities and schools.
• Energy Management for Energy Managers - Printed and Internet Publication (e-book)
Summary of project results
For most social care facilities, energy saving is an issue for which they do not have the necessary expertise and information, and there usually is no person in the facility who is responsible for and familiar with the energy management of the facility. Oftentimes, there is no system for monitoring and evaluating consumption. However, there is an interest on the part of the facilities to address this area. Thus, our aim in the project was to motivate schools and social service facilities to implement good energy management and thus achieve a reduction in energy consumption and the associated reduction in the emission burden.
Within the project we implemented all planned activities. We organised two full-day seminars on energy management in the context of social services, where we trained over 170 people in total. We also published an edited video-presentation of the seminars and created the publication Energy Management for Energy Managers in both printed and electronic form. The print run of the book was a total of 300 copies and the electronic version was downloaded from our website more than 500 times.
Energy management is a key component of reducing energy consumption in buildings and their operations, so awareness and education in this area is important. The activities we have carried out have a long-term effect and the education of people involved in the management of social services buildings will have a lasting benefit in the long term. Savings in the operation of the buildings will ultimately be reflected in reduced energy consumption and CO2 emissions.