We are tracking the energy savings being accumulated every month by 18 of our featured customers. These customers have requested monitors on their solar hot water and PV systems and from those monitors we're able to collect the data to keep an eye the savings.
Included in the profiled customers are Victoria General Hospital, Langley Fine Arts School, and Vanier Secondary School, in Courtenay. The picture below shows the total energy savings as of the end of September in terms of KWhs, coal, car emissions and more…
To break it down let's compare average consumption stats on the savings listed above:
– An average, two-story, three bedroom house uses 1500 kWhs a month, meaning we've saved enough energy to date to power a house for 11.63 years.
– 1 kg of coal generates about 2.75 kWh of electricity, which means we've generated approximately 89,298 kWh of coal-free electricity.
– An average car emits around 340 kg of CO2 a month, which means the GHG emissions from the installations we've done is enough to take almost 10 cars off the road for one year.
– 1 kWh is equivalent to about 2.2 lbs of carbon offsets so our total pounds of carbon offsets to date is: 460,506. On average, a mature tree can absorb CO2 at a rate of 48 lbs a year, meaning we’ve produced the equivalent offsets of 9,594 trees!
References:
US Dept of Energy carbon calculator and E-How's "How to Calculate the Environmental Offsets of Solar Energy".