Horizon Utilities in the Community

Horizon Utilities helped Mohawk College start the school year off right with a $50,000 cheque to acknowledge the college's energy-saving lighting retrofit. arrow down2

Representatives from Horizon Utilities went back to school in September to award Mohawk College with a $50,000 powerWISE® incentive for a lighting retrofit project that transformed its Fennell Campus. Mohawk converted more than 8,600 fluorescent lights to newer, more energy-efficient technology. Mohawk College proudly projects that these changes will reduce energy consumption by more than 974,000 kWh annually and result in over $123,000 of savings each year.

Horizon Utilities donates energy-saving conservation kits to Good Shepherd Centres and Community Care

Horizon Utility employees deliver energy conservation kits to the Good Shepherd Centres in Hamilton arrow down3

On April 3, our powerWISE® Owl, accompanied by Horizon Utilities employees, donned his Easter bonnet to donate 100 energy-saving conservation kits to representatives of Good Shepherd Centres in Hamilton, and 100 kits to representatives of Community Care of St. Catharines & Thorold. The kits were distributed to food bank clients to help them lower their hydro bills. The conservation kits included four compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs), an energy-efficient night light, and an energy conservation handbook.

"By using the conservation tips included in our energy conservation handbook and by installing compact fluorescent lights, the savings are significant. For example, if food bank clients who receive the kit install the four CFLs in areas where lights are used most often, they can save $50 on their electricity bill over the course of the next year," said Eileen Campbell, Vice President, Customer Services.

More than 350 business people attended the 6th Annual St. Catharines - Thorold Chamber of Commerce Business Achievement Awards on November 5th to celebrate business excellence in the community. Horizon Utilities proudly sponsored the Eco-Action Award which recognizes a company or individual who has demonstrated a commitment to the environment, provided environmental leadership or developed initiatives which improve our environment. The Eco-Action Award was given to PlanET Biogas Solutions Inc., a company specializing in the production of electricity through the process of anaerobic digestion.

The Chamber of Commerce also received an award from Horizon Utilities for their participation in the Power Savings Blitz Program. The Power Savings Blitz Community Champions Award was presented to Chamber General Manager, Walter Sendzik, in recognition of the Chamber's commitment to creating increased awareness for the program.

Eileen Campbell, Vice President, Customer Services, Horizon Utilities presents Walter Sendzik, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the St. Catharines-Thorold Chamber of Commerce with the Power Savings Blitz Community Champions Award for its commitment to energy conservation and support of the Power Savings Blitz program rollout.