An effort that asked residents to switch to energy-efficient light bulbs has paid off for Campbell County as the National Association of Counties named it a winner in the group’s Energy Star Campaign contest.
Campbell County will receive a $5,000 grant for winning the medium-sized county category in the national contest, which asked citizens and county workers to pledge how many light bulbs they would change.
The money will go to the county Social Services Department, with the goal that it will be used to help needy families decrease their energy use, said Cathy Moore, the county clerk who organized Campbell’s effort. “It could be as simple as buying $5,000 worth of compact fluorescent light bulbs and giving them away to families in energy assistance programs.”
In Campbell County, 433 county employees and residents pledged to replace 4,067 light bulbs. Nationwide, 4,560 county employees and residents pledged to replace 46,050 light bulbs with CFL bulbs, a NACo news release said. Counties in Nevada and Tennessee were the other Energy Star contest winners.
The county also is applying for stimulus money to switch out light bulbs in the Haberer Building and the social services building, but has yet to hear whether they will be awarded that money, Moore said.
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