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The lights have been on at a Mass. school for over a year because no one can turn them off
Posted on 1/19/23 at 11:25 am
Posted on 1/19/23 at 11:25 am
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WILBRAHAM, Mass. — For nearly a year and a half, a Massachusetts high school has been lit up around the clock because the district can’t turn off the roughly 7,000 lights in the sprawling building.
The lighting system was installed at Minnechaug Regional High School when it was built over a decade ago and was intended to save money and energy. But ever since the software that runs it failed on Aug. 24, 2021, the lights in the Springfield suburbs school have been on continuously, costing taxpayers a small fortune.
“We are very much aware this is costing taxpayers a significant amount of money,” Aaron Osborne, the assistant superintendent of finance at the Hampden-Wilbraham Regional School District, told NBC News. “And we have been doing everything we can to get this problem solved.”
Osborne said it’s difficult to say how much money it's costing because during the pandemic and in its aftermath, energy costs have fluctuated wildly.
“I would say the net impact is in the thousands of dollars per month on average, but not in the tens of thousands,” Osborne said.
That, in part, is because the high school uses highly efficient fluorescent and LED bulbs, he said. And, when possible, teachers have manually removed bulbs from fixtures in classrooms while staffers have shut off breakers not connected to the main system to douse some of the exterior lights.
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Posted on 1/19/23 at 11:26 am to rickgrimes
Entergy says "hold ma beer"
Posted on 1/19/23 at 11:27 am to rickgrimes
Find the breaker, flip it off every night.
Profit.
This isn't complicated folks.
Profit.
This isn't complicated folks.
Posted on 1/19/23 at 11:28 am to rickgrimes
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staffers have shut off breakers
why can't they just do this?
Posted on 1/19/23 at 11:28 am to rickgrimes
quote:
We are very much aware this is costing taxpayers a significant amount of money,” Aaron Osborne, the assistant superintendent of finance at the Hampden-Wilbraham Regional School District, told NBC News. “And we have been doing everything we can to get this problem solved.”
Yeah ok
Posted on 1/19/23 at 11:29 am to cable
Imagine having to flip the breakers to shut off the lights. What other devices are plugged into those circuits that need to continuously run when the lights aren’t?
Posted on 1/19/23 at 11:29 am to cable
quote:maybe the genius electrician that installed this put the security systems and HVAC on the same breaker
staffers have shut off breakers
why can't they just do this?
Posted on 1/19/23 at 11:30 am to rickgrimes
Entergy customers about to see a “Massachusetts school offset” up charge on their bill.
Posted on 1/19/23 at 11:31 am to rickgrimes
They can't hire someone to fix the software?
Posted on 1/19/23 at 11:31 am to rickgrimes
Look at the bright, pun intended, side something tells me they haven't had any problems with destruction of school property during that time.
Posted on 1/19/23 at 11:32 am to bamarep
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Find the breaker, flip it off every night. Profit. This isn't complicated folks.
Presumably there are things like refrigerators that need to stay on.
Posted on 1/19/23 at 11:33 am to rickgrimes
Just unscrew each bulb at the end of the day.
Posted on 1/19/23 at 11:34 am to rickgrimes
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But ever since the software that runs it failed on Aug. 24, 2021, the lights in the Springfield suburbs school have been on continuously, costing taxpayers a small fortune.
just call the geek squad
Posted on 1/19/23 at 11:35 am to rickgrimes
Why are the lights on a software that automatically turns on and shuts off the lights?
Are we that goshdamned fricking lazy nowadays that we can't be bothered to fricking switch on and off a light?
Are we that goshdamned fricking lazy nowadays that we can't be bothered to fricking switch on and off a light?
Posted on 1/19/23 at 11:35 am to Jim Rockford
quote:Refrigerators and lights are not on the same breaker
Presumably there are things like refrigerators that need to stay on.
Posted on 1/19/23 at 11:36 am to Jim Rockford
quote:
Presumably there are things like refrigerators that need to stay on.
they're all the same circuit? Who was the electrician that would have done this?
Posted on 1/19/23 at 11:38 am to rickgrimes
Motel 6 has gone too far
Posted on 1/19/23 at 11:39 am to papasmurf1269
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Refrigerators and lights are not on the same breaker
This. WTF kind of idiotic design is this?
Posted on 1/19/23 at 11:40 am to rickgrimes
Government at work. This is what happens when you're given money taken from others and don't have to earn your own money. They don't give a frick because it's not directly coming out of their pocketbooks.
Posted on 1/19/23 at 11:43 am to 0x15E
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Entergy customers about to see a “Massachusetts school offset” up charge on their bill.
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