2023 SEMmy Award winners

And the winner is…Planet Earth!

Our Commercial Strategic Energy Management (CSEM) program  is proud to recognize some of its most outstanding energy champions with SEMmy Awards.

CSEM energy champions are PSE business customers who join this multi-year program to learn the finer points of strategic energy management (SEM). They’re trained to use tools for tracking their energy usage and then taught how to interpret the data to make critical energy adjustments. They’re also coached in how changes to facility operations, maintenance and behavior can add up to large energy savings.

In the end, these businesses reduce their energy consumption, lower their carbon emissions and train their staff to prioritize energy efficiency.

While the businesses and individuals below took home SEMmy Awards in 2023, the real winner is our planet. CSEM, one of the country’s first utility-based programs dedicated to strategic energy management, thanks these customers for partnering with us to make their businesses more energy efficient.

2023 SEMmy Award winners

Community Impact Award: Sidney Winters, Central Kitsap School District
This award goes to someone who has had a positive impact on the community that she works in. This person grew up in the area that she now works in and continues to benefit her community by running an incredibly effective SEM program for the school district.

Organizational Impact Award: Brian Trimble, Nintendo of America
This award goes to someone who has had a positive impact on the community that she works in. This person grew up in the area that she now works in and continues to benefit her community by running an incredibly effective SEM program for the school district.

Organizational Impact Award: Brian Trimble, Nintendo of America
This award goes to someone who has had a positive impact on the community that she works in. This person grew up in the area that she now works in and continues to benefit her community by running an incredibly effective SEM program for the school district. SEM a part of their organizational goals and processes and has gotten buy-in across all levels of their organization.

Culture of Sustainability Award: Rich Martinez, Kitsap Bank
The Culture of Sustainability Award recognizes an organization that has created a company culture that is focused and driven toward sustainability. This organization continually pushes to be sustainable by constantly working toward their annual energy-saving targets and fostering an environment across their organization that prioritizes sustainability.

Outstanding Achievement Award: Jeff Tweeten, Bellevue School District
This award goes to an individual who has driven incredible change at an organization and is being recognized for outstanding achievement. He built a robust efficiency program and made efficiency a priority at this organization.

Green Teamwork Award: Courtne Russell and the entire team, UW Bothell
SEM is most effective when there is a team that pulls from across an organization working toward sustainability and energy-saving goals. The Green Teamwork Award recognizes an organization that has created a great team that is actively working toward their energy-efficiency goals while effectively collaborating.

Incentive Leadership Award: Pete French, Enumclaw School District
This award goes to someone who managed to squeeze every dollar he possibly could out of PSE energy-efficiency incentives. From lighting retrofits to new construction projects, this individual was able to find different funds for projects in every corner of PSE’s programs.

Comprehensive Conservationist Award: Julius Carter, Issaquah School District
This award recognizes the work that Issaquah School District is doing to meet CSEM goals with PSE, as well as the commitment the district has to conservation in all forms, including turning off lights, installing solar panels and EV charging.