WinCo Foods wins SMUD award for responsible energy stewardship. SMUD Board of Directors recognizes energy-conscious commercial customers. The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) is honoring WinCo Foods for making the commitment to reduce energy consumption and promote environmental protection by implementing energy efficiency measures and emerging technologies.
The SMUD Community Energy Award recognizes commercial customers who share SMUD’s values of efficiency and environmental sensitivity and who have turned these beliefs into actions. These customers have controlled their energy usage, improved their bottom line, and reduced the amount of energy that must be generated for our region.
This award recognizes the achievements of WinCo Foods for participation in SMUD’s commercial energy efficiency program. At its Elverta Road store in Antelope, WinCo Food’s modified its open dairy refrigeration coolers with high-efficiency doors resulting in significant energy use reductions and no negative reaction from customers. The store also replaced 176 linear feet of low- temperature, open refrigeration cases with high-efficiency, low temperature, reach-in cases equipped with no-heat doors and state-of-the-art LED lights. These projects resulted in a total savings of 324,806 kilowatt-hours.
To be eligible for the SMUD Community Energy Award, commercial customers must share SMUD’s strategic directives in environmental protection and efficient energy use. The customers also incorporate the innovative use of emerging or new energy technologies. One customer is chosen in each of the seven SMUD Board wards.
For more information about SMUD’s commercial programs that can save businesses money on electric bills, visit smud.org.
About SMUD
As the nation’s sixth largest publicly owned utility, SMUD has been providing low-cost, reliable electricity for more than 60 years to Sacramento County (and a small portion of Placer County). SMUD is a recognized industry leader and award winner for its innovative energy efficiency programs, renewable power technologies, and for its sustainable solutions for a healthier environment. The utility is on track to become the first large California utility to receive 20 percent of its energy from renewable resources.
About WinCo Foods
For over 40 years, WinCo Foods has fostered a tradition of success by focusing on very large stores with a wide selection of national brands at prices below the competition. In addition, the very nature of having employee stockholders that have seen their employee stock ownership plan (pension plan) grow at an annual compound growth rate of 21.51 percent, creates an extremely dedicated workforce. This has made WinCo a very successful company, and in 1998 it placed 266th on Forbes Magazine’s list of 500 largest privately held companies, and recently, climbed to the 92nd spot on the list. WinCo is continuing this record of success, now operating 71 stores in six states (Washington, Idaho, California, Nevada, Oregon and Utah) with over 13,000 employees and continues to grow by opening new stores and adding new members to the company every year.
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Suggested caption: SMUD Ward 7 Director Bill Slaton presents WinCo Food’s Bob Little with a SMUD Community Energy Award. The award honors commercial customers who share SMUD’s values of efficiency and environmental sensitivity, and who worked with the utility to turn these beliefs into actions.