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Energy Efficiency Arkansas
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Ed Ellis, Arkansas Energy Office, Arkansas Economic Development Commission
[Title slide - Energy Efficiency Arkansas; University of Arkansas Division of
Agriculture Public Policy Center logo and the Arkansas Economic Development
Commission logo.]
[Ed Ellis, Arkansas Energy Office, Arkansas Economic Development Commission]
Energy Efficiency Arkansas is a program that was created through the rulemaking
of Arkansas Public Service Commission. Energy Efficiency Arkansas is a
consortium of the utilities in Arkansas and the Arkansas Economic Development
Energy Office.
[Graphic of Energy Efficiency Arkansas website] Energy Efficiency Arkansas is
an outreach program primarily to provide cost effective information and training
for consumers. The information and the training must not only inform and train
it must motivate the consumer to use less energy through energy efficiency
measures and conservation measures.
[Ed Ellis] There is a variety of things that we are doing under Energy
Efficiency Arkansas. Probably the first thing we’re doing is [graphic of fact
sheets] developing, printing and distributing fact sheets and booklets that
relate to energy conservation measures that are simple, either low cost or no
cost for the consumer to implement.
[Video of Energy Efficiency Arkansas television commercial. A man is working
on a shower head, opens his shower curtain and there is a quartet singing "Let's
do the tighten up...oh yeah. The quartet continues to sing as people are laying
insulation in an attic, caulking windows, turning off a computer. Do the winter
tightenup! TightenupArkansas.org. Free tightenup! tip kit 1-888-524-4567.
Quartet sings as lady turns off light. Commercial ends.]
We have created spots that you may have seen on tv called “Program Tighten Up
Arkansas” and we’re running those spots to motivate consumers to go to either
one website or to our 1-800 number which will provide the information packet
with the factsheets and the home energy projects booklet.
[Graphic of a training manual] The third one is training and certification.
We need to have trained and certified people in the workforce in order to
provide an effective program. [Collage of photos showing participants in a
training class, a pressure flow guage, and a laptop computer showing a
blueprint] The training that we’re doing right now is in terms of heating and
air conditioning workers trying to get them to where they have a professional
education and a software package that they can use to do designing of air
conditioning systems for homes for going through and designing even the ductwork
that attaches to it.
[Ed Ellis] You know it’s an exciting time for energy because energy is on the
forefront because of pricing and the availability of the resource.
[Pictures of a blueprint, participants in training classes, a man working on
air return and duct work in an attic, and a man checking a light bulb with a
hand held instrument] In Arkansas there is a lot of opportunity. We call
ourselves the Land of Opportunity, and energy is definitely one of those fields
in which there is a lot of opportunity, whether you want to be an energy auditor
or energy engineer, home energy auditor or they have a thing called a demand
site manager where they are looking at utility electrical usages.
[Ed Ellis] There are a number of positions in Arkansas which we never see but
there are building full of people who are concerned about energy.
[Announcer] [Slide - Energy Efficiency Arkansas] The following was brought to
you by the Arkansas Energy Office [logo], the University of Arkansas Division of
Agriculture’s Public Policy Center [logo].
To learn more about sustainable, cutting edge and renewable energy
alternatives in Arkansas, go to
www.arkansasenergy.org or ppc.uaex.edu.
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