On Wednesday August 18, 2010, the City of Long Beach kicked off the Energy Efficiency Opportunity Drawing for Long Beach residents.  Long Beach homeowners can enter to win one of nine free energy efficiency makeovers for their home, worth $5,000. Winner were

This opportunity drawing is a partnership between the City and Southern California Edison (SCE), as a result of the City’s Local Government Energy Efficiency Partnership, which was started in January 2010.  Funding for this program is provided by SCE through City’s Local Government Energy Efficiency
Partnership.

Nine grand prize winners and nine runner-up prize winners were announced on Friday December 3, 2010:

District	Grand Prize Winner	Runner Up Prize Winner
1	Cheryl Perry	Nicole Arms
2	Roger Kavigan	Karen Leabo
3	Frank Keiser	Kim Armstrong
4	Lon Bubeck	Wesley Garrison
5	Gloria Shormaker	Abhay Maniar
6	Elizabeth Hayes	Paul Sumbi
7	Cynthia Stafford	Chuck Querido
8	Braxton Craghill	John De La Torre
9	Ken Asbury	Pengchun Uy

Winners were selected at random from the participants who entered the drawing.  The top 20% of highest energy bills in each Council District were segregated and one Grand Prize winner in each Council District was selected at random from this pool of entries. The other 80% of energy bills in each Council District were segregated and one Runner-Up Prize Winner in each Council District was selected at random from this pool of entries.Grand prize winners will receive $5,000 for a home energy efficiency makeover and runner-up prize winners receive $800 toward the selection of an energy efficient device for their home. 

A grand prize winner and runner up prize winner was selected in each of the nine Long Beach City Council Districts.The Energy Efficiency Opportunity Drawing is a partnership between the City and Southern California Edison (SCE) and is designed to encourage Long Beach residents to save energy and money and to provide visibility and best practices for residential energy efficiency installations.