Energy Education 
In Washington, Pacific Power partners with nonprofit agencies to provide energy efficiency education to sixth grade students. Agencies include Blue Mountain Action Council in Walla Walla. They instruct students on many aspects of energy including how it is generated, why it is important to use it wisely and how to become more energy efficient.
Pacific Power provides a kit of easy install measures that are distributed to all participating students. The program is well received by the students and their teachers.
More than 4,000 sixth grade students participated in the program last school year. Based on a follow-up study, the students combined efforts saved more than 11 million kilowatt-hours of electricity by installing measures such as compact fluorescent light bulbs and making behavioral changes such as reducing shower time. The measures and the students' new energy-saving habits also saved an average of more than $185 per family.
The BMAC Energy Education Program runs throughout the school year; the classes are staggered to allow for travel between the schools in our service area (Columbia, Garfield and Walla Walla Counties). The program ends in the spring with a drawing of eligible students at each school for a chance to win one of ten new mountain bikes.