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10 | City of San Antonio grading city facilities and historic structures to improve lighting and HVAC systems. Last year, that project helped save 8,200,000 KWh of energy and 6,500 CCF of natural gas, or a savings of more than $650,000 in annual avoided energy costs. The City uses in-house expertise to measure the energy sav- ings over time. They then utilize an innova- tive funding mechanism to capture the sav- ings and reinvest them in a fund that is used to finance future energy-saving upgrades. Office of SustainabilityContractMan- ager Clint McKenzie says one of the chal- lenges San Antonio had to overcome was ed- ucating people on how sustainability works. “Teaching people to do things differently is always a challenge,” says McKenzie. In this case, San Antonio was helped through the creation on an online, do-it-yourself audit- ing tool through the municipal utility, CPS San Antonio Office of Sustainability Group San Antonio Riverwalk