LEDs to Save $800k

Superintendent Jerome Belair announced his plans to team with a Berlin energy company to save $800,000 over the next 25 years by using solar energy and LED lighting. DBS Energy Inc, a Berlin company, has done an energy audit of Waterford’s schools and plans on putting solar panels on the roof of Quaker Hill Elementary School and to change the outdoor lighting at all five Waterford schools to LED lights. Those moves would save the town $800,000 in energy costs over the next 25 years, according to a presentation by the owners of DBS Energy Inc.