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Southern California Edison (SCE)

ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence

Southern California Edison Company (SCE) delivers electrical energy solutions to nearly 14 million residents in southern and central California, using ENERGY STAR to present a consistent message on the benefits of energy efficiency to all California residents. SCE's long-standing commitment to ENERGY STAR, its leadership in program design and delivery for long-term market transformation, and its successes in overcoming market barriers to energy efficiency for its residential, business, and government/institutional customers all set the company apart. Key accomplishments in 2011 include:

·         Devising multifaceted upstream, midstream, and downstream approaches to market transformation and energy efficiency program delivery--including seeding California's changing lighting market with ENERGY STAR qualified products representing a broad spectrum of existing and advanced lighting technologies.

·         Ensuring that ENERGY STAR qualified products are promoted across all programs, including its low-income assistance programs, which offer products that have earned the label when serving eligible customers.

·         Empowering its customers to adopt energy-efficient lifestyles by participating in EPA's Change the World, Start with ENERGY STAR campaign--including driving the ENERGY STAR pledge, participating in the ENERGY STARs Across America consumer event series, and spreading the word through a range of social media platforms.

·         Networking strategically with 10 building industry associations and with other key professionals in the residential building industry; SCE used these partnerships to collaborate in designing new ways to increase public awareness of the benefits of ENERGY STAR certified homes.

·         Expanding a free automated benchmarking service, in cooperation with EPA, and increasing enrollment to over 1,000 SCE customers.

·         Partnering with customers to exceed its electricity savings goals by delivering 1,694 GWh in energy savings and 324 MW of permanent demand reduction.