Saving money on energy costs

A number of ECA members have been suggesting ways to save money on energy bills. Here is a message from Brad Bickford and a response from ECA president Z Becca:

Hi Karren:

Thanks for your excellent board/meeting notes.  I have a suggestion to save Elizabeth money and cut wasteful energy.  Can we cut off the hallway lights on lobby floor during the day time especially when it is a bright sunny day?  Or at a minimum turn off every other light?  Global warming is REAL TOO!

Thanks 

Brad Bickford , owner 1601

Hi Karren,

Thank you for the note from Mr. Bickford.  We are already taking these suggestions into consideration because couple of other residents had similar ideas.  Before any steps are taken we need to figure out the liability component of implementation, accessibility, reach and obviously the cost.  One solution could potentially be the following: 

GE Indoor Motion Activated Light Control 

by GE
Link: http://a.co/iCvGQYL

I'm loving the fact that people are thinking outside the box to help us save money.  Although the savings would be insignificant with the control of the lobby lights, they still add up.  I would love it even more if somebody had a cost saving idea on a grand scale.  Someone in one of the surveys mentioned renting our roof top space to a cell phone provider for a tower.  Now that could be big if feasible.  I'm assuming the cell phone providers would have already approached us if our building was of interest to them, but totally worth looking into. 

Best, -Z