First Steps: Advantages
	Step 1: Change your thinking
	Step 2: Establish a baseline
	Step 3: Compare with other facilities
	Step 4: Understand payback
	Step 5: Choose your measures
	Step 6: Arrange financing
	Step 7: Track your savings
	Step 8: Celebrate your success

Step 8: Celebrate Your Success

You should be proud of your organization's efforts to reduce its energy consumption. For example, you could display the details and results to employees and other stakeholders. After all, a commitment to saving energy and protecting the environment involves convincing others to do the same.

Natural Resources Canada's Office of Energy Efficiency (OEE) offers opportunities to raise awareness of energy efficiency in your organization and national recognition to organizations that successfully implement energy efficiency savings.

Awareness Opportunities

More ideas on how promoting energy efficiency plans and savings in your organization can be found in the publication A Guide to Implementing an Energy Efficiency Awareness Program.

Awards

• Our awards for existing buildings recognize organizations that save energy through retrofits.
• ENERGY STAR^® Market Transformation Awards recognize companies and organizations that have surpassed the competition in offering Canadian consumers the most energy-efficient product, technology or service available on the market.

Case Studies

Successful projects are sometimes featured in OEE case studies of existing buildings and ENERGY STAR participants.

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