Energy Optimization Program

About the Program

Category: County Resiliency (Best in Category)

Year: 2011

Wayne County is committed to transforming itself into an International center for energy Excellence. This means helping its citizens to identify ways to reduce their energy consumption, creating jobs in alternative energy and energy efficiency sectors, and reducing its own energy footprint in government. To further these goals, Wayne County has developed an energy Optimization Program and team made up of staff from all departments and the Wayne County Commission. Its collective goals are to reduce energy consumption in public buildings, help deliver tools to homeowners and businesses who wish to reduce their energy consumption, and develop a strategy that puts Wayne County at the forefront of the alternative energy industry. The Energy Optimization Team’s first large-scale building energy project was kicked off in November 2009 at the Medical Examiner’s Office. The project was completed in September 201 and produced $306,494 in energy savings during the construction period alone, and it expected to reduce energy consumption by 58 percent – saving an additional $365,240 for the county annually.