MONROE, La. - Mayor Jamie Mayo and the Monroe City Council have announced that the city of Monroe will save more than $2.7 million in energy costs under an energy performance contract with Siemens Building Technologies, Inc., Buffalo Grove, Ill.
The first phase of the project, which began in December 2003, consisted of heating-cooling system upgrades and lighting retrofits to city-owned buildings, and the installation of a Siemens Apogee® energy management system to monitor and control energy usage. The project also includes changing the lamps in the city's traffic light system to more energy-efficient LED lamps.