Laurel Boys & Girls Club Launches Effort to Go Green and Cut Utility Spending by 40%

Largest Club in the State of Maryland Sets Out to Reduce Energy Usage and Set Example for Boys and Girls Clubs Across the Country

Laurel, MD -- The Laurel Boys & Girls Club (http://www.laurelboysandgirlsclub.org), in affiliation with Maryland Green Power Co. (http://www.marylandgreenpower.com), is ablution an advancing affairs to abate the club's activity achievement and consecutive spending by upwards of 40%.

In acknowledgment to their added than $80,000/year account bill, the LBGC acclimatized Maryland Green Power's action to plan pro-bono in evaluating the Club's activity pitfalls and apparatus a affairs to advice them become added able and decidedly cut costs.

In a letter to accompaniment and bounded admiral beforehand this year, the Club's Executive Director, Patrick Reed, wrote of the ache of ascent account costs spawned by added ammunition prices.

"Increased account costs, accompanying with contempo account cuts, accept created a accountability on the club which accepted allotment artlessly can't relieve," says Reed. "The absence acknowledgment is to accession associates dues, but that isn't a fair or applied solution. What Maryland Green Power is accomplishing is allotment us with an effective, acceptable solution. We are actual optimistic about this program."

The program, accepted as the EnergyMapsTM energy-saving system, was advised by the UK company, Enigin.

"EnergyMapsTM combines cutting-edge technology with claimed accountability," says Maryland Green Power CEO, Dennis Meizys. "We're ambience up a affairs that will advice the LBGC adviser their activity usage, all the while teaching the club's staff, volunteers and associates what they can do to administer it."

At the amount of the EnergyMapsTM affairs is the EniscopeTM adviser which will backpack out a 24/7 appraisal of the Club's activity burning and acquaint them if they are application too abundant energy. Installation of this metering accessories and added associated abstracts is accepting done pro-bono by the Calvert-Jones Co. (http://www.calverjonesgreen.com) - a automated application aggregation specializing in environmentally complete HVAC, electrical, and accouterments solutions.

As allotment of the antecedent evaluation, Maryland Green Power Co. articular 10 added energy-saving solutions for the Club, including careful the building's attic and switching activity providers. "I affected that alteration providers, alone, will aftereffect in an burning accumulation of $6,879/year for the LBGC," says Meizys. "Our plan, alternating with the advice of Calvert-Jones, is to accommodate connected engineering appraisal and abutment already the EnergyMapsTM affairs has met its goals to ensure that LBGC has had the befalling to accede every accessible energy-saving option."

LBCG's President, Levet Brown, is actual agog about the program. "I am actual appreciative of this project," he says. "We are demography albatross for the administration of our activity and sending a agitating bulletin to the kids, to the association and to Boys & Girls Clubs above America. It's a win for the Club, and it's a win for the environment."

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The Laurel Boys & Girls Club is the better Boys & Girls Club in the accompaniment of Maryland. It provides recreational and accessory programs to its some 2,500 members, including 11 above able-bodied programs, abounding of which action both civil and canton competition. The club welcomes donations which can be fabricated on their web site.

Maryland Green Power Co. is a Columbia, MD aggregation specializing in allowance bartering and residential barter save money and barrier ecology decay through customized activity extenuative solutions, renewable architecture materials, and avant-garde recycling solutions to ensure sustainability in our communities.

Calvert-Jones Co. is an Alexandria, VA automated application aggregation run by President, Stan Peregoy, specializing in environmentally complete HVAC, electrical, and accouterments solutions. For added than 60 years, Calvert-Jones has been trusted with new and absolute accessories to actualize an ideal ambiance inside, while aspersing the appulse on the ambiance outside.