Orange County's Pollution Prevention (P2) Program can help you increase energy efficiency, conserve water, and reduce waste streams - all while saving money!
The P2 Team offers a free site assessment that will help you inventory your energy, water, and waste consumption and generation. Following the assessment, you will get a list of Green suggestions that will help you save money while reducting pollution and waste. Participants who implement Green changes will receive a personalized certificate as evidence of their Green commitment.
Call now to learn how to take advangage of this service: 407-836-1531
Real-time PV system data! (External Site) • see the power being generated, historical energy data, environmental benefits, and more!
Opening of the Climate Change Education Center • OrangeCounty is marking its transition to a clean energy future with the grand opening of the Climate Change Education Center (CCEC) and the celebration of the new solar photovoltaic (PV) array, both at the OC Convention Center, during the Green Cities Florida conference May 20-21. The PV project is the largest rooftop solar array in the southeast, inhabiting the space of five football fields and generating 1,300 megawatt-hours of electricity per year, without producing any greenhouse gases. The CCEC will offer visitors a unique look at some of the latest energy efficiency and alternative energy technologies. For CCEC operating hours, please contact Environmental Protection by calling 407-836-1400 or via e-mail at OrangeToGreen@ocfl.net.
READ all about the NEW! Solar PV Array and Climate Change Education at the Convention Center in the Orange Spiel - Employee Magazine,August/September 2009 Issue... "Here Comes the Sun!" - pgs 12 - 16
Mayor Richard T. Crotty is taking an energy challenge (PDF - 674KB) and would like to encourage local businesses to join him in these efforts to reduce energy consumption in our community. Visit the BOMA 7-Point Challenge (External Site) to see how you can participate.
Orange County's Orange to Green Development Program (OGDP), approved March 4, 2008, was created to encourage sustainable development in our community. For more information, visit the Orange County Building Department's Green Building page. View the Resolution (PDF - 64KB).
Orange County has been certified a Green Local Government at the Gold level by the Florida Green Building Coalition (FGBC) - the first municipality in Florida to be certified at the gold level. Full Story (PDF - 223KB)
On September 25, 2007, Orange County hosted its first-ever Climate Change Summit. Both the Summit and Mayor Crotty's Climate Change Plan (Word - 180 KB) mark the beginning of a strategy to place Orange County in the forefront of the world-wide movement to reduce green house gases.
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