Waverly Light and Power received the American
Public Power Association's Energy Innovator Award at the
association's National Conference in San Antonio, Texas. This award
recognizes an innovative utility program that provides better
service to electricity customers or increases the efficiency of
utility operations.
APPA created the award in 1981 to honor
public power utilities that have made outstanding advances in the
development or application of highly creative energy-efficient
techniques and technologies. Award consideration is given to those
systems participating in APPA's Demonstration of Energy-Efficient
Developments program. DEED was established in 1980 to sponsor and
conduct activities related to energy innovation, improving
efficiencies and lowering the cost of providing energy services to
the customers of publicly owned electric utilities.
The House of Green is Waverly Light and
Power's super-energy-efficient demonstration home. The home
incorporates renewable building products, passive solar design and
landscaping for energy efficiency. Using affordable, latest
practices, Waverly Light and Power has showcased unique features to
be used. In addition, these features will set an example in
educating other public power systems working with new
developments.
Waverly Light and Power also will use this
opportunity to monitor the home's energy use and kilowatt demand by
separately monitoring the HVAC system, hot water heater, appliance
loads and other plug-load. Once accumulated, this data will be used
to educate customers on real-time energy and demand
savings.
This is the fifth DEED Energy Innovator Award
for Waverly Light and Power.
