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for several years, where we encourage customers to purchase energy-efficient appliances. If they do that, they are able to reduce the amount of energy they consume and thus reduce their bill. We have about $100,000 earmarked for rebates. Our rebate program is only open until June 10. We are oversold for fiscal year 2011, but we will restart it in October and that is when this money will come into play.


GD How will the consumers learn about these programs and these rebates on how they can qualify for them? LTWe have a very extensive website that provides all of this information. Again, only until June 10, but then we’ll start back up in October. Te website is the best source of information, then we also have ads that run periodically. Radio spots and the like, we try to keep our customers informed in those ways. We also put it in bill inserts. So certainly there are opportunities for customers to learn, and the local businesses here are really good about sharing this information with their customers because it helps them to sell the higher-end, energy-efficient units.


GD One of the things you listed as far as the projects was actually installing an energy management system at the Keys Service Building. What exactly does that entail? LTWe kind of looked at this as an opportunity for KEYS to spend some money on our building. It seems just like doctors are perhaps the last to take care of their own personal health, utilities are sometimes the last to take care of its own energy-efficiency needs. Tis is essentially a computerized system that helps us control our lights, air-conditioning load and if the building is empty the lights will go off so we are not consuming energy unnecessarily. Likewise, when the building is empty, the temperature will rise a little bit so we are not consuming as much air conditioning.


GD Being here in the Keys with as much sunshine as we have, solar energy is always something being discussed and being implemented, but we don’t see that many projects going forward. It


[ l y n n . t e j a d a ] l Keys Energy Services/KEYS GM/CEO since 2005; employee


since 1989 l Salary $159,307.00 l Memberships: Florida Municipal


Power Agency, Florida Municipal Electric Association, president l Education: BA in Arts with major in journalism from University of North Carolina; MBA Regis Uni- versity Denver, Colorado. l Board Member: United Way of Monroe County, Key West Cham- ber of Commerce, Monroe County Green Initiative Task Force 2010; supported Solar Demonstration Project at Keys Eco-Discovery Center 2009


appears that one of the projects you are looking to do is a solar panel array. Tell us how that will be installed and where it will be installed. LT Basically, we are looking right now of going out on a competitive bid to install a solar photovoltaic system at our warehouse on Stock Island. It’s a perfect place for it, right there on the inlet, and there is no shade issues so it will get a lot of direct sunlight at that location. For us basically it’s an opportunity to again show our customers what solar can do. Solar is still very expensive and for Keys Energy simply to install solar generation is not cost effective and would drive our rates up. Having a grant and money coming from the Feds is an ideal opportunity for us to get more experience in the solar arena. We’ll have an interactive website where customers can go and see the output of the solar system so they know basically how much we pay for it and what the output is. Tat way they can help make their own decisions about whether they would like to install it on their homes in the future.


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