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PA Green Power Award Winners Honored At Philadelphia Luncheon
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PennFuture this week recognized the winners of its Green Power Awards this week at a special Philadelphia luncheon. The winners in each category were--
Green Power: Buy It
-- World Resources Company, Pottsville: For your purchase of 100 percent wind energy to meet the electricity needs at your Pennsylvania commercial recycling facility.
-- Meyer Design, Inc., Ardmore: For your purchase of 100 percent wind energy to meet all of your electricity needs.
-- The Shell Group, Mount Joy: For going above and beyond to support wind energy development by purchasing 248 percent of your electricity requirements from wind power.
-- SunRun, San Francisco: For bringing your innovative financing options to Pennsylvania homeowners who want to install solar panels, expanding the Commonwealth's solar market.
Green Power: Make It
-- Pocono Raceway, Long Pond: For the development of a 3 MW solar power array, helping to cut greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 2,370 tons a year.
-- Carlisle Area School District, Carlisle: For installing a 1.2 MW solar power array, the largest at a Pennsylvania school district.
-- Komax Solar, York: For expanding your York facility to increase the production of solar PV modules and grow the number of great green jobs.
-- The Springside School, Philadelphia: For installing a 94 kilowatt solar power array, currently the largest solar array in the City of Philadelphia, making enough clean energy to reduce your carbon pollution by four million pounds each year. This project was instituted by the class of 1966 in honor of their 40th anniversary.
-- Voith Hydro, York: For creating great green jobs at your York hydro turbine equipment manufacturing facility, including hiring 27 percent more employees over the past two years and investing more than $15.3 million in building renovations, new equipment and upgrades to existing equipment.
-- Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc., Bryn Mawr: For installing a 1.1 MW solar power array, at the Ingram's Mill Water Treatment Plant.
-- U.S. General Services Administration and Veterans Affairs Regional Office and Information Insurance Center, Philadelphia: For using American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to install solar power arrays at dozens of Federal buildings nationwide including a 455 kilowatt solar array on the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Regional Office and Information Insurance Center.
Green Power: Save It
-- Drexel University, Philadelphia: For your leadership in energy efficiency including deploying an energy monitoring system at the main campus, and creating My Green Cube to help encourage efficiency, recycling, reduction, and re-use.
-- The Hankin Group, Exton: For your leadership in energy efficiency, by placing energy conservation, LEED certification, and innovative design in the forefront of real estate development throughout Chester County.
-- West Chester Area School District, West Chester: For your energy conservation program in 16 district schools that has reduced electricity consumption by 9.1 percent and lowered carbon emissions by 14.8 percent.
-- Four Seasons Hotel, Philadelphia: For your continued commitment to sustainability including reducing total energy consumption by more than 20 percent; installing low-emission microturbines to provide 100 percent of the building's daily domestic hot water needs, 25 percent of its electric needs and 15 percent of its heating needs; and reducing landfill waste by more than 40 percent.
-- David Krupp, Philadelphia: For your work to create more energy efficient homes in Philadelphia
Green Power: Leading the Way
-- Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation: For the creation of the Navy Yard Clean Energy Campus as a regional and national center for research, education, and commercialization of green technologies, including the siting of the Heliosphera thin-film solar module manufacturing plant.
Pennsylvania State Representative Eugene A. DePasquale, York: For your continued efforts to promote the development of policy to support the growth of clean energy including, the passage of the $650 million Alternative Energy Investment Fund and efforts to increase the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard through the Clean Energy and Green Jobs Bill.
-- Russell C. Redding, Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Harrisburg: For the development of the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center Going Green program, which includes extensive recycling, wind turbine, and energy savings retrofit projects
-- Jay Butera, Gladwyne: For your leadership in advocating for federal clean energy and climate legislation through your work with One million calls for clean energy.
-- Green Center of Central Pennsylvania, Harrisburg: For your leadership in promoting solar and energy efficiency through education and workforce training programs.
-- Judith L. Mondre, Philadelphia: For your distinguished history of successful and innovative energy management and policy making, serving commercial, industrial, institutional, governmental and educational organizations.
Citizens' Choice Award
-- Foulkeways at Gwynedd: For your continued work at Pennsylvania's first Continuing Care Retirement Community to reduce energy usage and become carbon neutral by a number of actions, including the installation of low-flush toilets, energy efficient doors and windows, geothermal wells, and compact fluorescent light bulbs throughout the property.
Special Leadership Award
-- John Hanger Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection: Visionary, Trailblazer, Champion. For your unparalleled leadership and inspiration in growing great jobs and building Pennsylvania's 21st Century clean energy economy.
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9/20/2010 |
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