According to Nyk Kloulubak, Energy Planner from Palau Energy Office, the light bulbs will help the school not only replace the old lights in the classrooms, but also reduce the school’s energy consumption by using more efficient lighting.
The light bulbs are 13-watt CFL equivalent to 60 watt which Palau Energy Office ordered from from the US.
Chief of School Management Sinton Soalablai was grateful to Palau Energy Office for their timely donation.
“PHS badly needs to replace the lights,” Soalablai said in an interview. “There is an urgent need to replace the lights in the classrooms. The lighting is not adequate. It’s a risk to students’ eyes especially when it’s raining.”
Palau Energy Office also gives CFL light bulbs to other schools in its effort to help reduce the country’s energy consumption.
“One of our policy targets is to reduce 30 percent national energy consumption by 2020,” Greg Decherong, Director of Palau Energy Office, said in an interview. And one of their strategies is to provide the country with products, like the CFL light bulbs that were not available in the country before.
Two years ago, there were no available CFL light bulbs in hardware stores in Palau.
