News & Press

May 3, 2007  ---   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

San Francisco, CA—May 3, 2007— Flex Your Power, California’s statewide energy efficiency campaign, has recognized Chartwell School as a leader in energy efficiency with a Flex Your Power Award in the Best Overall category. A total of 41 winners were selected from several hundred applicants for outstanding leadership in energy efficiency. Cumulatively, award winners over the last two years have saved more than $172 million, one billion kilowatt hours and reduced greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to removing almost 85,000 cars from the road. This year’s 5^th Annual Flex Your Power Awards Ceremony will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, May 5 at the San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center.

 

Chartwell School was highlighted for designing and building their new campus in Seaside to be a model of energy efficiency. This high performance learning environment features extensive use of daylighting, a wide array of efficient task lighting in classrooms, a PV system, high performance window glazing, natural ventilation, a highly insulated envelope and state-of-the-art water conservation technology. Together, the features make the building a “net zero” electricity user and one of the “greenest” schools in the U.S.

 

Of the award winners, Director Walter McGuire of Flex Your Power said, “The awards present an opportunity for California to congratulate the leadership shown by this year’s Flex Your Power award winners who have demonstrated that we can all save money and the environment. By reducing their energy use, this year’s Flex Your Power award winners have saved more than $30 million and reduced global warming emissions equivalent to taking 40,250 cars off the road.”

 

In addition to the California Public Utilities Commission, Flex Your Power Award winners were selected by senior representatives from the California Independent System Operator, California Energy Commission, California Urban Water Conservation Council, League of California Cities, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Building Owners and Managers Association, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, and Southern California Edison. For more information on the 5^th Annual Flex Your Power Awards, visit www.flexyourpower.org, and for Chartwell, see www.chartwell.org.                             Photos available.                               ###