March 03--In their ongoing effort to harness solar power to curtail utility expenses, Glendale school officials are looking to add more solar panels at nine campuses, including at Glendale High School, where panels already generate power.
The driving force behind the additional panels is the number of dollars the district has saved from its general fund, an amount that exceeded $1 million between 2013 and 2015, according to Alan Reising, administrator of facilities at Glendale Unified.
In all, the district saved $1.080 million in utility costs -- about $45,000 more than anticipated.
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"This has actually been a wise investment," Reising told the school board recently, whose members praised the effort to add more panels. "It has actually paid off."
The district installed its first panels at schools in 2012, some of which were paid for by Measure S bond funds.
In two years, the more than $1 million in savings so far is directly tied to the panels at eight campuses, including at Crescenta Valley High School, Rosemont and Theodore Roosevelt middle schools, and Mountain Avenue, Monte Vista, Marshall, Fremont and Balboa elementary schools.
School officials have not yet calculated the projected savings at Clark Magnet High School, Glendale High School, Mark Keppel, and Columbus elementary schools.
Kelly Corrigan, kelly.corrigan@latimes.com
Twitter: @kellymcorrigan
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