Fairfax County Public Schools has been selected as a 2024 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year winner for Sustained Excellence. This award is reserved for ENERGY STAR® partners demonstrating outstanding leadership, year over year. 

FCPS uses ENERGY STAR® to engage students, conserve energy, protect the environment, and as a catalyst for stewardship throughout FCPS schools and the community. Recent accomplishments include:

• Achieving ENERGY STAR certification at 72 schools in 2023.
• Achieving energy savings greater than 20% and $80 million since 2014 by upgrading to LED technology, and maintaining solar arrays at 10 schools.
• Maintaining the FCPS Energy Education Team, which strives to reduce district energy use and cost without negatively affecting health and safety, the educational environment, or productivity.
• Improving both indoor air quality and energy efficiency through heating, ventilation, and air conditioning projects.
• Committing to achieve a 50% reduction in emissions compared with the 2019 baseline and having 25% of energy use come from renewables by 2030; with a long-term goal of carbon neutrality by 2040.

FCPS has been an ENERGY STAR® partner since 1998. For more information, visit the FCPS ENERGY STAR® webpage.