Efficiency Maine recognizes Dave’s World

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    AUGUSTA — Efficiency Maine held its annual symposium in Augusta recently to honor business leaders in Efficiency Maine programs and Maine’s energy efficiency community.
    Approximately 200 efficiency contractors, stakeholders, and legislators attended the event. Efficiency Maine also awarded the Philip C. Hastings Award to recently retired Maine Public Utilities Chairman Thomas L. Welch for his frequent and influential commitment to energy efficiency.

    Efficiency Maine’s trade allies are instrumental in helping Mainers access cost-effective energy efficiency and are the drivers of the growing energy efficiency industry in Maine. Efficiency Maine recognized several of these businesses for performance that went above and beyond in connecting Maine businesses and homeowners with energy efficiency incentives.
    Twenty-five businesses including Dave’s World in Dover-Foxcroft were recognized for outstanding leadership in energy efficiency in Efficiency Maine business programs, residential programs, innovation in the marketplace and for marketing strategies.
    Dave’s World was one of nine businesses honored in the residential programs category and one of only five to be recognized for innovation.
    Participants attended a panel discussion on Maine’s path to affordable home heating led by home performance and heating system professionals.
    A workshop entitled “Using New ‘Smart’ Technology to Lower Energy Bills for Maine Businesses” highlighted smart meter analytics and advanced controls technology.
    Patrick Woodcock, Director of the governor’s Energy Office and Efficiency Maine Trust board member, offered his thoughts on the future of energy efficiency in Maine.
    Michael Stoddard, executive director of Efficiency Maine, provided highlights from Efficiency Maine’s work in the past year, including delivering electricity savings at an average levelized cost of 2.3 cents/kWh compared with an average cost of supply of 7 cents/kWh.
    Stoddard also noted that Efficiency Maine’s programs in FY14 helped Mainers avoid $191,779,901 in wasted energy costs.
    Efficiency upgrades installed since the Trust started in July 2010 through the end of FY2014 are projected to lower lifetime energy costs by $964 million and now deliver the equivalent of a 96 MW power plant operating on the hottest day of the summer, accounting for 3 percent of Maine’s generating capacity during summer peak.
    For more information, visit www.EfficiencyMaine.com.