Energy Leadership

Specific Judging Considerations

• To recognize individuals, businesses, organizations, and communities for demonstrating outstanding leadership in improving energy efficiency, developing advanced energy technologies, and using renewable energy resources
• Processes used to optimize the amount of energy consumed in operational activities (if applicable)
• Relationship between the environmental benefits and the associated economic benefits

2007 Winner of Energy Leadership

Winner – City of Johnson City Iris Glen Gas to Energy Partnership (Washington County)
The Iris Glen Gas to Energy Partnership is a highly creative use of landfill gas that conserves natural resources, reduces greenhouse gases and provides a long-term revenue source for the City of Johnson City. Through the use of new technology, Energy Systems Group (ESG) has engineered and built a landfill gas processing system to convert raw low BTU gas to clean high BTU gas as a direct replacement for natural gas. ESG constructed a four-mile pipeline through the city to the Mountain Home Veterans Administration Medical Center where the renewable gas is converted into electricity and steam at a reduced cost over traditional natural gas. The project saves the equivalent amount of emissions as would be saved by removing 34,000 cars from the road each year, or planting 49,000 acres of trees each year, or heating over 11,000 homes.