Green Energy Works presents to Cloudcroft School Board

A representative from Green Energy Works visited with Cloudcroft's School Board last Monday to explain the "Renewable and Clean Energy Bond Program" and how it could benefit the schools. A brochure was provided that outlines the program, along with a flyer explaining who Green Energy Works is.

To hear this presentation, you can visit the podcast for the April 11, 2011 school board meeting at http://cmsbears.podbean.com or download the podcast from iTunes.

Greenhouse Underway at Cloudcroft Schools

The greenhouse project is finally underway inside the bus loop at Cloudcroft schools. Purchased with funds from the A+ for Energy Grant sponsored by BP, volunteers started pounding stakes into the ground this past fall. Then came the BIG freeze...and the only thing harder than pounding stakes into rock is pounding stakes into frozen rocks. Now that things have thawed out, we will once again be rounding up volunteers to beat more stakes into the ground.

Volunteer John Manford and volunteer/science teacher Jean Davis are starting to piece together the greenhouse.

School Board Approves Grant Application

Tonight the Cloudcroft School Board approved the application for a grant for a 100KW Solar photovoltaic system. More information is available at www.cmsbears.net

Cloudcroft Schools looking at Solar Energy

On November 9th, the Cloudcroft School Board will consider the approval of the application for a grant for a 100 KW PV Solar system. If you would like to check out this program, you can visit the PED memo or the Governor's press release.

Cloudcroft Schools also received a grant for $150,000 for energy efficient lighting. The Governor has publicized this information here.

Of course, the energy-related grant from British Petroleum, which prompted the formation of this blog, was received this past summer. The school was awarded a $10,000 grant for a greenhouse, powered by solar photovoltaic and heated by solar thermal. This program will be used by science and agriculture students across the district to study botany and plant biology, as well as to learn about alternative energy sources.