Home Energy Challenge
Home Energy Challenge
Welcome to the 3rd year of the
Hawaiian Electric Home Energy Challenge
with $25,000 in cash prizes!
The Hawaiian Electric Home Energy Challenge is designed to teach students and their families on Oahu how to lower their home electricity use and create positive energy-conserving behavior. Hawaiian Electric Company will provide specific energy-saving tips and offer schools diverse materials and tools focusing on the importance of energy conservation and the environment.
Families will compare their 6-month energy use from October 2008 – March 2009 to the same 6-month period of the next year, October 2009 – March 2010. Their goal is to reduce their electrical use during the second 6-month period as a result of learning about energy conservation. Schools of all sizes can compete levelly because the winner is determined by the school whose students’ home energy use decreased by the largest percentage.
Those school teams that reduce the most will win:
$5,000 Largest Percentage Decrease Overall (Island-wide)
$2,000 Largest Percentage Decrease In Each District
NEW! This year, schools enrolled in the Home Energy Challenge will have to option to create an Energy Conservation Project! One School In Each District Will Win $3,000!
No matter which schools win the prizes, all families and schools win by reducing their home electricity use and developing energy-conserving lifestyles.
NEW! The minimum participation is 50 students with individual residential Hawaiian Electric accounts. We will monitor the electrical use in those students’ homes, but all students in the school can participate in the educational activities and material.
Timing is very important as this program takes place near the beginning of the fall semester. Elementary school principals need to turn in the Letter of Intent to Hawaiian Electric by August 14, 2009. Schools will need to rally the parents and submit their Participation Entry Roster to Hawaiian Electric by September 21, 2009.
Click on the links for more information or call 543-7511.
This webpage is updated regularly, so check back often!
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