When your school signs up to join the Energy Smart program, all second, fifth and eighth grade students (as well as school staff) will receive free take-home energy-saving kits. The kits contain measures to help save energy and money at home while encouraging energy conservation throughout your New Orleans community.
Here are the free measures that will be included in your energy-saving kit:
- Four ENERGY STAR® 9W LED A19 bulbs
- Two ENERGY STAR® 14W LED A19 bulbs
- One 1.5 gallon-per-minute (GPM) low-flow fixed showerhead
- One 1.5 GPM kitchen aerator
- One 1 GPM bathroom aerator
- One self-adhesive foam weatherstrip
Altogether, this program will save over 797,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of energy this year.
That’s the equivalent of:
- saving 565 metric tons of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere
- taking 122 gasoline-powered vehicles off the road
- preventing 624,922 pounds of coal from being burned
- recycling instead of landfilling 195 tons of waste
- growing 9,339 tree seedlings for 10 years
This program is provided free of charge to your school by Energy Smart and is a comprehensive energy efficiency program developed by the New Orleans City Council and administered by Entergy New Orleans, LLC. In order to administer the program, we must verify all the awesome energy savings above!
Every single student who gets a kit is sent home with a Home Energy Survey to help them install the measures with their family and connect their new energy learnings to their real-life. We ask each kit-participating teacher to gather the Home Energy Surveys and return them to us. In exchange, each teacher will receive a $50 mini-grant.
Do your part for the environment and sign up for Energy Academy today to start receiving your free kits.
