Home Energy Challenge
Congratulations to the 2009-2010 winners of the Home Energy Challenge! Sunset Elementary won First Place and enjoyed a special show at their school by Honolulu Theatre for Youth! Click here to read more about everyone's efforts last year.
Welcome to the 4th year of the
Hawaiian Electric Home Energy Challenge
with $23,000 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 2009 – March 2010 to the same 6-month period of the next year, October 2010 – March 2011. The 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.
The school teams with the largest percentage energy decrease will win:
$10,000 First Place
$6,000 Second Place
$3,000 Third Place
Added ways to win and learn! Schools enrolled in the Home Energy Challenge will have the option to create an Energy Conservation Project! Four schools will win $1,000 each!
No matter which schools win the prizes, all families and schools win by reducing their home electricity use and developing energy-conserving lifestyles.
The minimum participation is 20% of the school's student population or 50 students (which ever is more) with 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 13, 2010. Schools will need to rally the parents and submit their Participation Entry Roster to Hawaiian Electric by September 20, 2010.
Click on the links for more information or call 543-7511.
This webpage is updated regularly, so check back often!
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