Representatives from Belmont Light recently visited fourth graders and teachers Jess Endres (back row, second from left) and Samantha McCabe (back row, third from left) at Roger Wellington School to present them with a certificate honoring their local win of the PTA/PTO Green Alliance’s Green Cup Energy Challenge for 2015. The students helped to reduce the school’s electricity consumption by 18.2% over a four-week period, earning them the top finishing spot in Belmont and 9th place in the country for the energy conservation challenge. This was the second consecutive Green Cup Energy Challenge win for Wellington School. Last year, students and teachers there reduced energy consumption by over 13.6% during the competition.

General Manager Jim Palmer (back row, third from right in the photo) congratulated the students for their outstanding conservation efforts, highlighting the message that seemingly small changes can produce meaningful results when reducing energy waste. When Palmer asked the students what they did to achieve such great results, they offered an impressive plethora of answers, including always turning off lights in empty rooms, unplugging electronics after they used them, and checking in at the end of the school day to make sure that anything that used energy was properly shut off. 

Also in attendance to congratulate the students and teachers were Belmont Light staff Becca Keane (back row, left), Executive Assistant and Communications Coordinator Jim Palmer (back row, third from right), General Manager Waseem Aldabagh (back row, second from right), Engineer; and Ed Crisafi (back row, right), Operations Manager.