Getting schooled in efficiency

The Fort Gibson Public School District reached out to OG&E with concerns about its outdated lighting system and rising energy costs. Through the School and Government Efficiency Program, OG&E provides publicly funded facilities like Fort Gibson schools with guidance and incentives for energy efficiency projects.

OG&E’s participating contractors performed a full lighting retrofit of the school district’s kindergarten, middle school, high school, administrative offices and gymnasiums. That meant replacing each of the district’s 1,621 T8 and T12 bulbs with longer-lasting, energy-saving LED bulbs. To offset the
costs of the upgrades, OG&E provided the district with more than $50,000 worth of incentives.

Thanks to these incentives and energy cost savings of more than $27,000, the district is expected to recoup its investment within five years.