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Parking Today  May, 2013   Adopt-A-Watt Program Funds ‘Green’ Initiatives for Public Agencies   By Melissa Bean Sterzick. Universities and municipalities looking to upgrade their garage lighting systems now have an additional source of capital for such projects. Adopt-A-Watt is a national program designed to provide a business-based funding methodology to help

Daily Tribune By Catherine Kavanaugh Posted: Monday, 04/22/13 02:48 pm  With the flip of a switch, a parking deck on Center Street in downtown Royal Oak became a model for businesses putting the planet — and local government — before profits on Monday. There were a lot of smiles at

Royal Oak Patch By Judy Davids  April 22, 2013 The city shows off 102 energy-efficient lights and Devin Scillian, news anchorman for NBC affiliate WDIV-TV, demonstrates a new electric vehicle charging station in the Center Street garage. The city of Royal Oak flipped a figurative and literal switch on its Adopt-A-Watt

PARKING Magazine – March 2013 P3 Agreements Provide Energy Savings at No Cost to Cities The cities of Dearborn and Royal Oak, Mich., recently launched historic Public-Private-Partnership agreements with Adopt-A-Watt®, Inc. to replace more than 200 inefficient lights, with energy efficient lights in their parking garages.  Funded entirely through sponsorships, these projects incurred no costs

Public Works – March 2013 Adopt-a-What?! Company pairs sponsors with agencies to provide no-cost clean energy.  Posted on: March 15, 2013 By Kelley Lindsey   Eaton Corp. sponsored an electric vehicle charging station in Dearborn, Mich., which was the first city in the nation to move forward with Adopt-A-Watt’s energy saving

The Detroit News – November 1, 2012 at 4:25 pm By Lauren Abdel-Razzaq Royal Oak — Business owners and city and state officials met Thursday to launch a public-private program they say will save the city thousands of dollars in energy costs without costing taxpayers a cent. Under the program,

Daily Tribuine By Catherine Kavanaugh  November 2012 cathy.kavanaugh@dailytribune.com; @CatherineKav ROYAL OAK — Two of the city’s parking decks are getting $38,400 worth of energy-efficient lights courtesy of sponsors who will Adopt-a-Watt to shine a little publicity on their businesses. Signs with about 80 sponsor names similar to the Adopt-a-Highway program

By Judy Davids and Molly Tippen October 23, 2012 Two downtown Royal Oak parking structures will be fitted with energy-efficient lights, courtesy of some very concerned businesses.  If residents see some very modern-looking lights being installed in two of Royal Oak’s public parking structures, take heart: This is one public

Two parking structures in Royal Oak be fitted with energy-efficient lights, courtesy of the city and some very concerned businesses. By Judy Davids Email the author November 1, 2012 Royal Oak-based Adopt-A-Watt rolled out its program for Royal Oak Thursday morning at the Royal Oak Farmers Market. Adopt-A-Watt, a public-private