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March 7, 2012
Contact: Andrea Marzullo, Director, Central Florida Energy Efficiency Alliance, Orange County
Government, 407-883-5936 or email Andrea.Marzullo@ocfl.net
Courtney Upshall, Environmental Protection Agency, ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Awards
Coordinator202-343-9948 or email upshall.courtney@epa.gov
Central Florida Energy Efficiency Alliance Earns
ENERGY STAR® Excellence Award
Orange County, FL - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has named the Central Florida
Energy Efficiency Alliance (CFEEA) a 2012 ENERGY STAR® Award for Excellence in ENERGY STAR®
Promotion winner. The award recognizes outstanding efforts in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by
sponsoring significant consumer education efforts promoting energy-efficient products. CFEEA
accomplishments will be recognized in Washington, D.C. on March 15, 2012, at an awards ceremony
which also marks the 20th anniversary of ENERGY STAR.
“As we celebrate the anniversary of the ENERGY STAR program, EPA is proud to recognize CFEEA with
the 2012 ENERGY STAR Award for Excellence in ENERGY STAR Promotion,” said EPA Administrator Lisa P.
Jackson. “CFEEA and all our ENERGY STAR award winners truly demonstrate how the leadership and
commitment from EPA’s partners has made a difference in the lives of Americans since 1992, saving
them billions of dollars in energy costs and improving the health of our families, the planet and our
future.”
CFEEA is made up of professional and trade organizations, local governments, academia, and utilities
that are committed to conserving energy and natural resources through environmentally and socially
responsible energy and building management practices. CFEEA is funded through a grant to Orange
County Government from the Department of Energy. Key accomplishments include:
Motivating the commercial sector to improve energy efficiency by hosting the Kilowatt
Crackdown Challenge annually, which requires participants to track energy use and commit to
reducing it by 30 percent over 3 years. More than 2,000 buildings have signed up for the
Challenge since its launch with over 350 buildings participating in 2011 alone. Overall,
participants in the Kilowatt Crackdown Challenge have collectively saved almost 14 million
kilowatt hours of electricity and over 24,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.
Conducting extensive outreach to businesses in central Florida about the challenge and ENERGY
STAR.
Holding free workshops on energy management and performance improvement topics, such as
benchmarking in Portfolio Manager, upgrading lighting, enhancing HVAC efficiency, and
implementing building automation control strategies.
Addressing market barriers to benchmarking energy use through the Energy Specialist Training
Program, a 12-week course that teaches University of Central Florida students how to collect,
enter, and report energy use data so they can assist local businesses and government agencies.
ENERGY STAR was introduced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1992 as a voluntary
market-based partnership to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through increased energy efficiency.
Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, ENERGY STAR offers businesses and consumers energy-efficient
solutions to save energy, money and help protect the environment for future generations. About 20,000
organizations are ENERGY STAR partners committed to improving the energy efficiency of products,
homes, buildings and businesses.
For more information about CFEEA, visit http://powerupgreenenergy.com/ or contact Andrea Marzullo,
Director, at email andrea.marzullo@ocfl.net or (407) 836-1400.
For more information about ENERGY STAR, visit www.energystar.gov or call toll-free 1-888-STAR-YES (1-
888-782-7937).
For a free pollution prevention assessment, call Scott Tess with the Environmental Protection Division at
(407) 836-1400.
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