Honeywell has received an award from Flex Your Power, California’s statewide energy-efficiency campaign. The award is for the company’s Cool Control Plus® program, which has reduced electricity consumption for hundreds of small hotels and motels throughout the Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) service area in northern and central California.
To date, the program has cut energy use by more than 25 million kilowatt- hours (kWh) – enough energy to light the Golden Gate Bridge for more than 50 years. Over the lifecycle of the measures installed, Honeywell expects to achieve energy savings of more than 375 million kWh.
The company has retrofitted more than 27,000 rooms under the program. And these upgrades have helped cut annual carbon dioxide emissions by an estimated 39 million pounds. According to Pacific Gas and Electric’s carbon emissions data, this equates to removing 2,400 cars from the road each year for the life of the measures, a minimum of 10 years starting in 2009.
Many hotel and motel owners operate on shoestring budgets, and have not had the capital or staff to participate in energy-efficiency programs,” said Paul Orzeske, president of Honeywell Building Solutions, part of the Automation and Control Solutions business group. “Cool Control Plus removes these barriers so they can improve their efficiency and lower their utility bills. This innovative program is both fiscally and environmentally smart, which is why PG&E continues to offer it to more hotels and motels each year.”
For more information on the 6th Annual Flex Your Power Awards, visit http://www.FlexYourPower.org.
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