DELAWARE, Ohio and NEW
YORK, Aug. 13, 2012
/PRNewswire/ -- ThinkEco (www.thinkeco.com), a
New York City-based
energy-efficiency company, and Greif, Inc. (NYSE: GEF, GEF.B), a
world leader in industrial packaging products and services, teamed
up to prove that when equipped with an interactive and actionable
energy platform, employees can effortlessly learn energy efficient
habits and automatically save tons of energy. Through the
four-month Greif Energy Efficiency Challenge, participating
employees at Greif's Delaware,
Ohio headquarters were able to
improve their energy IQ, spark broader energy dialogue and reduce
electricity consumption by using ThinkEco's energy-challenge
platform.
ThinkEco's energy-challenge platform combines its award-winning
modlet with an engaging web application that allows participants to
create custom teams, share ideas with teammates, view earned badges
and track their team's performance relative to others by
pinpointing sources of energy use and savings. The modlet is a
smart plug that enables users to wirelessly meter and control power
use at the plug level. Users can reduce energy waste by
presetting individual outlets to turn on and off based on tenant
schedules, or remotely switching them on/off from a smart phone. By
integrating the modlet with an attractive web-based
energy-challenge software, ThinkEco enables participants to
identify where they are wasting the most energy, and empowers them
to act on that information as a team by automating savings using
the modlet or educating each other online about energy-saving
habits.
Before partnering with ThinkEco, Greif already had a robust
sustainability program in place. However, the company wanted
to find a way to further engage employees to become active
participants in energy savings. The Greif Energy Efficiency
Challenge was designed to address this need, with the goal of
facilitating its 60 participating employees to become active
leaders and advocates for energy savings.
For the challenge, each participant received one modlet that
could be individually monitored and controlled. They were then
organized into two teams of 30 employees each, enabling
collaboration to maximize performance. The two teams competed on
the basis of both energy savings and energy knowledge, with badges
and points earned for participation in learning activities. For
example, one badge activity encouraged participants to identify
active and standby power states of devices monitored by
modlets.
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SOURCE ThinkEco, Inc.