 Dorenaka Fuji, who is with Strategy and Innovations Program for Kamehameha School. Now let's back up, if we could, to World War I. World War I, England and France were the premier powers. Russia was very, very powerful. Then came World War I. Other countries were destroyed. America emerged much stronger. And the Europeans and the Russians hadn't learned their lesson yet. So 20 years later, they started another war and included Japan. Those nations were left in rubble. America emerged as number one in the nation and continued prevailing through the 40s, 50s, 60s. And then stuff started to happen and those of us who have been on the planet long enough to remember the 1980s remember that Japan rose from the ashes and was threatening us as the world's number one economy. They managed to burst their bubble. So we were number one again but just for a while because here came China and here comes China. And suddenly our complacency has been severely shaken including in the educational field Enter Dora Nakafuji, Strategy and Innovation for Kamehameha School. I know that educators nationwide are struggling, struggling saying, how can America be the premier nation if we're not doing an excellent job of educating our kids and bringing them thoroughly and completely into the 21st century. So Kamehameha School is trying a new type of program. So welcome Dora to the program. Thank you for having me. So you want to give us a little bit of background and then we can bring up the first slide. Sure. I guess a lot of the motivation behind that story, I was actually lost in your story of history here. Kind of reminiscent of history class but I think that the bottom line is that we, every generation we have new technology that evolves and materials that come up and our current times we have some amazing technologies now. And even though in the past we've had great observations, great lessons learned and ways of doing things, the new technology and the new materials afford us some new efficiency. Well now let me interrupt and let you expound on Moore's Law. Moore's Law. It's doubling everything and tripling everything. Well now it's actually exponentially increasing. Exponentially. It was Professor Moore who then became founder of Intel who in the early days of computers said every 18 months the capacity of computers is going to double while the cost slices in half. And by George he was pretty well on target. He's still around and he's astounded at how accurate he was. So just as you said change because of that is happening exponentially and maybe too fast for you and me but certainly we've got to have the kids keep up. Yeah and I think that's really the challenge is how do we bring these types of skill sets into our learning environments not only allow the kids to experience it but also operationally how do we gain efficiencies and how do we develop our next practices rather than just best practices because best practices are based on learnings of others and going forward. So let me predict as we go forward we're going to combine real-world three-dimensional stuff with learning very rapidly. It's really hands-on right and if you put these tools into practice it becomes second nature. It's that going to that old adage of flying by the seat of your pants which has a sense of adventure but it's also what kids gravitate to because there's a sense of exploration and creativity. Kids do not like to sit in classrooms and stare at a teacher who's talking. They want a sense of adventure and if we can give them three-dimensional stuff to play with I think that really enhances the learning experience. Maybe we can bring the first slide up to kind of illustrate what we're doing here. So what is a PowerScope project? So really this project is and I entitled it Making the Invisible Visible partly is because when we talk about energy it's very hard to visualize electric use and other things but when you turn on the light you're actually using a lot of energy and many times we don't even really appreciate how much energy we use throughout the day and as we introduce renewables and other types of generation onto our islands as part of our 100% renewable goals we actually need to start asking that question of how are we using it and how are we more sustainably integrating that into our environments. And then let me that word sustainable in the worlds that you and I inhabit we use all the time but I would define sustainable as sort of self-feeding you're not going to just throw a bunch of dollars at something and it's nice and it poofs it's going to build it's going to serve as a platform for more and more and more and more building. Is that a decent definition of sustainable? Yeah I think that's definitely a good definition because it shows that there's learning on knowledge I mean things that you've experienced that you kind of build on that knowledge because I think at the end of the day being sustainable is about including certain practices into whatever you do as part of the process, processing, part of what you do as part of habit and so our project really is just the small sliver of the entire portfolio of all the things that are happening and this was really designed to address kind of our understanding of our various campuses and our places and how much energy we were using and how to more effectively manage the energy use because we want to be conscientious we also want to be good citizens and in doing that we need to actually understand some of these things that relate to energy whether it be water and other underlying infrastructures for operation but energy being a key component how are we using it and where can we get economies of scales or efficiencies these technologies allow us to be more insightful and build on that kind of seat of the pants feel of hey I think we're using a little bit too much well why because these things are happening or we get a signal a visual signal now whereas in the past we weren't quite sure except for the bill but now we have a visual signal of what we're doing and using you know maybe minute by minute or you know at least somehow you can graph it often real time and you use the word visible somehow you had the phrase making the invisible visible so again dealing with the kids you're getting them to see stuff and they were born with a mini computer in their hands so they understand this stuff intimately and instinctively the platform itself lends itself well too because it has a visual display that immediately not only informs the operations side but there's also an immediate platform that kids can learn to read it's not so difficult because it's a graph it's a simple color graph and those are all tools and elements of STEM education that we want to try to be able to connect and then it's dual value, dual purpose so you're not creating a whole set of these tools are practical in other words it's relevant to the place that they are at and then they can learn about the place and apply their learnings to help the place it's all connected maybe that brings up the next slide so this is kind of how you the sequence that you lead the children through well this kind of sequence question really came about early on where you know we were looking at it's an awareness it's all about awareness so if you have an interest in an awareness you start asking questions and given the set of information you have can lead you to one set of solutions but that inquiry leads to some action and that's really kind of our ability to get more insightful so the first level is you got your monthly bills but then the natural question is what's going on why is it so high so we may end up attaching our actions to doing some things which could impact our bills but do we really understand how it impacts so these tools now give us more of the sub hourly real time information that gives us kind of a heartbeat of our campus and that heartbeat tells us whether we're using a lot racing that hard or we're like resting right now and so those kinds of signals allow us to make other informed decisions and drive other actions so can you walk us through the graph with the green mountains and bellies in there so that's just an illustration of our ability now to see how we're using our energy in this kind of a profile to call it an energy profile is this all of the Kamehameha campus so all three campuses now have the same visual ability to monitor in real time we worked with Hawaii Electric and STEM which is the provider of that tool set to integrate this as part of Hawaii Electric launched it as part of their smart power for schools and we're one of the first I think we're the first private school to actually adopt this and utilize it in our places so operationally we can now identify where our peaks are our low times and our high times are how we're using energy where our bulk is the uses which is in the green and then solar which is in the yellow is this a 24 hour period or is this started midnight and midnight yeah this is two days worth of data and you can kind of tell on the bottom where we do have solar you can see one day it's sunny the other day actually the first day was not as sunny the second day it was sunny so you can see how the solar impacts our usage so we do have solar self-generation on our roofs and one of the question is how much more should we get or how can we better effectively utilize solar and there are challenges with integrating solar partly because of the variability as you can see here some days you got it and some days you don't but there are also now emerging tools where we could be you know looking at our own usage on campus what equipment do we have on and maybe begin to manage that demand as well so there's a combination of solutions that we can now take having this information so like that little yellow blip under there that means that there is more solar energy provided than the campus is able to absorb well because there's still green that means that our campus energy use is still positive meaning we're still using energy we haven't sent it back but the yellow shows how productive our solar panels are during that time and during that day which then helps understand where you see the dotted line right above the green that shows what we would have used if we didn't have solar so that gives us an indication of how effective our solar program is which is a great metric to have in terms of decision making and driving future investments question is are there other technologies out there that we need to better our load because our load isn't only in the middle of the day so we have different peaks and different usage profiles this really helps us kind of do that analysis and have that conversation have that conversation with our facilities where this is at they're at our campuses they're also at our office buildings and we're going to be trying one of our commercial properties so they all have different shapes the commercial property would be way we shall see that's my uneducated guess and are the students looking at these graphs too and getting an explanation of what's going on so this is just starting so as part of the effort again the target was really to help our campus facilities operations folks begin to better identify strategies that could help because they're so busy with everything just keeping the campus running and so we wanted to make it quick and simple but at the same time the way that the program was rolled out and there's a partnership with Department of Education under the smart power for schools there was a natural link to actual connect with students so the tools and the viewers are dual purpose we don't have to change it because it's simple enough for the kids to learn and use and on that very cheery note to take a break cold green Howard Wigg Durinaka Fuji back in one minute I'm Jay Fidel of Think Tech our flagship energy show among the six energy shows we have is Hawaii the state of clean energy it plays every Wednesday at 4 p.m. come around and see us learn about energy keep current on energy on ThinkTechHawaii.com Aloha and welcome to at the crossroads Keisha King you can catch me every Wednesday alive at 5 I'll see you there welcome back to cold green with Durinaka Fuji strategy and innovation can't call you chief but one of the strategists and innovators with Kamehameha school they are launching it's still in the preliminary stages the solar or clean energy program which they aim to eventually really really integrate into the kids curriculum and of course for the little kids it'll be simple when you get up to high school it's going to be a lot more sophisticated so why don't we bring up the next slide and see where in the world this innovative program is going for Kamehameha school so what's all this about now so this graphic shows a little bit of some of the visuals that come from this tool now that we have it prior to that we definitely did have our energy bill as every organization has and residential customer has but as a commercial customer we also need to understand how much energy we're using and with the solar how effective it is so it's that same green hilly profile that you have and that gives us some metrics like demand and how our energy use consumption is the other one is really kind of a color one that you can see the red yellow and green and different ways of rendering it's kind of a an area chart of hot spots I call it where the red indicates high uses and it's an average across multiple weeks of how you're trending how long would this time frame be with that multicolored the stem tool actually provides you the ability to look across an average of seven weeks which gives you a nice historical profile how you use energy this is nice to begin troubleshooting in this view is every day of the week but you can actually will it down to each day of the week across seven weeks and that gives you a sense of trends and it's just a very flexible tool which I think can give not only operations folks but kids who are curious about how energy is used and they can easily find a weekend or they can find when they're on holiday like the slide the blue and the green on the left would that be a weekend or a holiday period or well no this is a 24 hour period so it shows from 12 midnight to 12 like 12 to 12 right so early morning hours are shown in green because not so much energy is being used so that's the low that's when your heart is at rest right and then it starts waking up the campus starts waking up and so it gets into the yellow and then it's red because we're running a marathon now for until school is out and then it starts tapering off and you can see it going from orange to yellow and then it's going to quiet down again to be rusty so these are things that we can begin to connect with students and then there's actually the other ones like the speedometer of how quickly we rev up so it's like a race car and that one is in real time and that tool is effective in communicating how quickly we ramp up when things are turned on and turned off so how we use it I think this is still kind of an exploratory but we're using it to inform our energy management strategies again on all the campuses they have a lot going on they're already doing a lot but this just gives you a little bit more information so like the speedometer with the little green slice on the left say that 6 in the morning could you actually be watching this as 6 becomes 7 in the morning becomes 8 in the morning and then it's ramping up more and more and more you'll see it in real time and sometimes just like a speedometer will flick up really fast and it'll come coming down and it could be for various reasons like chillers turning on but it's a great tool for troubleshooting but at the same time it adds to that you know awareness leads to inquiry and inquiry leads to action because now you can make the connection as to what's causing it where can we be more effective and target what's going to help manage and save and getting back to the children seeing that green thing go up up up hey how come it's going up because all the classrooms are turning on the lights and the AC is coming on the computers are coming on and that's a connection to their place so here's a connection that says hey we live or we go to school and this is how we're affecting the school so this is how the school you know how do we then inform our own actions do we turn off the lights in the classroom so we really need that AC when it's a nice beautiful we've been having all these cool days so then I'm just envisioning around 10.30 in the morning they might see the green thing having hit a kind of high and then that green if that reflects consumption kind of starts going down and they say what's going on here well the sun's beginning to be strong and the photovoltaics are kicking in does it show that also say 10.30 to 2.33 yep that's the photovoltaics up there right and they can easily pick out based on the trend data so the other things we have now historical data that they can go and pick out we can as people watching the energy use we could actually pick out days and get a better sense of the productivity but at the same time students could easily pick that out too we have to get there we just haven't got these things installed and brought some photos to share it took quite a bit of coordination and teamwork to actually make it happen so I think we just are trying to build and these are the stepping stones to get there absolutely so we've got a very short time believe it or not why don't we zip through the final slides so you can zip us through the explanation here I think they're not very complicated from that one yeah these are just images we worked with Hawaii Energy and the installers of this unit and they were able to this is them working on one of our solar to make the solar visible we had to install some equipment absolutely and then the next slide is oh that's a fascinating slide yeah that slide actually shows the actual box that's the box with all the magic and STEM is the organization that provided the platform that's a national organization they're based out of California and they've been working with Hawaii Electric over the last several years they actually came out of what was called Energy Accelerator at that time as part of so there's a nice story here that connects investments several years ago as an incubator we tried it here in Hawaii and they're now we now have it in our place it's making that connection a dream come true because Hawaii has a very strong STEM or innovators program yeah and incubation program for a lot of these new technologies and one of the things that's really I love about it is that there's so many jobs and opportunities created it creates that appetite for kids to want to try something and the wages are not going to be dishwashing wages they're apprenticeship level electrician level certified so you see here just a couple of folks working in that you know in that space and he looks young enough where the students can identify oh that could be me in a few years yeah they were a great group to work with we were very very fortunate to have a good team that was responsive because we had multiple deployments and they had to work within our schedules with our students so we had to wait for the holidays and the weekends so everybody honestly it was amazing how everyone came together if I know you that was largely your coordination and logistics that brings us to the end of our show we were just getting warmed up my goodness this is exciting stuff I wish I were a child at the Kamehameha school right about now so that brings us unfortunately to the end how would we code green with the Oranaka Fuji strategy and innovation person for Kamehameha school they're just launching this exciting program see you next time