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SERT ENERGY AWARD

Winners for 2015-2016 Fourth Quarter ‘Tis the Season

The SERT program is proud to announce the winners of the 2015– As the holiday season approaches, we
2016 Fourth Quarter Energy Award. SERT would like to thank the will begin to see lights everywhere.
building service staff for their efforts to save energy during the Once reserved for trees, lights are now
summer months. We applaud all of our students and staff for their used to decorate the inside and
commitment to conservation and sustainability. outside of our homes, schools, and
stores. Whether they’re large or
Congratulations to the following 59 schools:
miniscule, multicolored or white,
Argyle MS Highland ES Poolesville HS
blinking or solidly lit, strings of lights
Lucy V. Barnsley ES Jackson Road ES Quince Orchard HS
will soon grace mantels, eaves,
Belmont ES John Poole MS Redland MS
windows, shrubs and trees. And they
Bethesda ES Jones Lane ES Rock View ES
will spectacularly beautiful! But how
Bethesda-Chevy Chase HS Kemp Mill ES Ronald McNair ES
Brooke Grove ES Dr. Martin Luther King MS Shady Grove MS much electricity will those lights use?
Burtonsville ES Spark M. Matsunaga ES Sherwood HS
Carl Sandburg Learning Center Ronald McNair ES Silver Spring Intn’l MS
Clarksburg ES Meadow Hall ES Sligo Creek ES
Col. E. Brooke Lee MS Mill Creek Towne ES Sligo MS
Capt. James Daly ES Monocacy ES Somerset ES
Damascus HS Montgomery Knolls ES Springbrook HS
Diamond ES Montgomery Village MS Takoma Park MS According to the Center for Global
William H. Farquhar MS Neelsville MS Twinbrook ES Development, Americans use 6.63
Forest Knolls ES Newport Mill MS Walt Whitman HS billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of
Galway ES North Bethesda MS Watkins Mill HS electricity for seasonal lighting, which
Germantown ES Oakland Terrace ES Westland MS is more than many developing
Goshen ES Olney ES Wheaton Woods ES countries use all year long. El Salvador
Greenwood ES Parkland MS Woodlin ES
and Ethiopia use less than 5.5 billion
Harmony Hills ES Piney Branch ES
kilowatt hours annually. While it
represents only .2 percent of the U.S.
annual energy consumption, 6.63
billion kWh is enough to run 14 million
Thanksgiving Shutdown refrigerators (modern ones use about
350 kWh/year). Click here to calculate
Please remember that all our facilities need to be the energy usage of other household
properly shut down for the long Thanksgiving appliances use, and here to find out
weekend. Two thirds of a school’s electricity use how much energy your school is using.
comes from the lighting and plug loads. Just
As you begin decorating for the
imagine how much energy will be saved system- holidays, consider replacing your
wide when the lights and everything plugged into
incandescent bulbs with LED lights.
a wall outlet have all been turned off for the 5-day
They use 33 percent less energy, they
weekend!
will last longer, and because they
We appreciate you taking the time and putting don’t have filaments which can heat
forth the effort to complete and submit the Long up and burn out, they’re safer than
Weekend Shut Down checklist. traditional lights.
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