As Summer Heat
Waves Increase Energy Bills, 'Smart' Home Energy-Efficiency
Makeover Offers Consumers Year-Round Energy, Environmental $avings
— One Homeowner Who Enters by August 31 Gets Makeover From SCI
FI Channel, Alliance to Save Energy, EEI —
—
www.scifi.com/homemakeover —
Washington, D.C., August 22,
2007 – As summer heat waves across the country increase air
conditioning use and drive energy bills higher, the Alliance
to Save Energy, the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), and NBC
Universal’s SCI FI Channel's innovative energy-efficiency
campaign offers consumers an array of energy-efficiency
low-tech and high-tech money-saving tips, surprising energy
facts, and a national contest for a home energy-efficiency
makeover.
As part of the Eureka $mart House Energy-Efficiency Challenge—
www.scifi.com/homemakeover —one lucky homeowner who
enters by the August 31 deadline will win a home
energy-efficiency makeover that will make his/her home
"smarter." The winner will be chosen in September and the
makeover, which will be documented on the contest website with
photos, will be conducted during October’s Energy Awareness
Month.
SCI FI Channel is promoting the campaign on air and online as
part of its second season of Eureka, a town of geniuses and
their families where the lead characters live in a “Smart
House”—the impetus for the overall energy-efficiency home
makeover.
The Alliance to Save Energy
and its partners note, “All of us can make our homes ‘smarter’
with today’s energy-efficiency technologies and products that
do the work for us—reduce monthly energy bills, energy waste,
pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions simultaneously.”
Other partners in this
national media partnership include the U.S. Department of
Energy, the American Gas Association, the Consumer Electronics
Association, Whirlpool Corporation, OSRAM Sylvania, The Dow
Chemical Company, CMC Energy Services, and the
Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute.
Based on an energy audit, the grand prize winner could receive
the following energy-efficiency makeover improvements of up to
$25,000 to create a “smarter” home:
Overall energy audit to identify energy problems and document
what might be undertaken to make the home more
energy-efficient by CMC Energy Services;
- Whirlpool ENERGY
STAR-labeled kitchen and laundry appliances;
- Computer and
energy-efficient electronics and wiring of the home by
Consumer Electronics Association and its member companies;
- Energy-efficient compact
fluorescent lighting by OSRAM Sylvania;
- Sealing of all air leaks
by The Dow Chemical Company; and
- Appropriate insulation for
the winner’s particular climate, as well as a programmable
thermostat, low-flow shower head, faucet aerators,
ventilating fan, and much more.
Contestants are asked
to answer a few energy-oriented questions about their homes
and write a brief essay about their deservedness for an
energy-efficiency home makeover. After submitting their entry,
they are encouraged to go to the 6° of Energy Efficiency
Challenge website
www.sixdegreechallenge.org to “Test Their
Energy IQ” and take the 6° Challenge by committing to at least
one tangible energy-efficiency action and encouraging others
to do the same. The 6° Challenge interactive social website
was developed last year by the Alliance and more than 30 other
nonprofit and profit partners. The Alliance has made SCI FI
Channel a partner in the challenge.
The Alliance to Save Energy has had an existing partnership
with SCI FI since last year on the channel’s Visions for
Tomorrow public affairs campaign focused on energy and the
Alliance’s award-winning Super Powers TV PSAs
www.ase.org/superpowers, which feature a family of Super
Heroes and encourage viewers to “Discover Your Own Energy-$aving
Super Powers” and Project Super Powers
www.projectsuperpowers.com where people can name their
Super Heroes and their energy-saving Super Powers. That
partnership has been expanded and extended through the new
focused energy-efficiency campaign and home makeover contest.
About the Alliance to Save
Energy
The Alliance to Save Energy is a coalition of prominent
business, government, environmental, and consumer leaders who
promote the efficient and clean use of energy worldwide to
benefit consumers, the environment, economy, and national
security.
Source: Alliance to Save Energy
CONTACT:
Rozanne Weismann, Tel: 202-530-2217
Website:
www.projectsuperpowers.com
www.ase.org/superpowers
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