Entergy Partners with Arbor Day to Provide Remaining Free Trees to Residential Customers
2/22/2012
Entergy is partnering again with The Arbor Day Foundation to provide free trees to residential customers including employees who are customers in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi. This is part of an ongoing effort to distribute trees to Entergy customers.
The Arbor Day Foundation’s pilot, Energy-Saving Trees program, is aimed at helping conserve energy through strategic tree planting. Energy-Saving Trees is a new program from the Arbor Day Foundation that expands their efforts to work with utility companies across the nation on educating people about proper tree care and tree planting.
Entergy customers and employees can reserve up to three free trees at Entergy.com/arborday until April 16. In return for the free trees, customers and employees agree to plant them in a location that will reduce their energy consumption and care for them.
“Entergy applauds the efforts of Arbor Day Foundation to link energy efficiency, environmental stewardship and new technology embodied in the Energy Saving Trees program. We are excited at the prospect of helping our customers reduce their energy consumption while helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions through tree planting,” said Brent Dorsey, director, corporate environmental programs.
To assist customers in choosing the most strategic location to plant their tree, the Energy-Saving Trees program provides customers with access to an online tool.
The tool allows customers to map their house, select a tree with energy-saving potential, view the best energy-saving locations to plant and receive an estimate of the annual savings they will receive as the tree grows. The two- to four-foot trees will then be delivered directly to the customer to plant this spring in the designated location.
The partnership is supported by Entergy’s Environmental and Corporate Social Responsibility groups. Look to Inside Entergy for more information about The Arbor Day Energy Saving Trees program.