The National Environment Agency (NEA) and the Singapore Environment Council (SEC) organised the Project Carbon Zero, an energy-saving competition for primary school students in 2008. Project Carbon Zero aims to motivate students to reduce energy wastage at home. About 1300 students participated and 30 WINNERS emerged who managed to reduce their household electricity consumption by at least 10% during the competition period. The winner of first prize was Mr. Zhang Zhe Xin from Northland Primary School who managed to reduce his electricity consumption by 33% and saved about $46 during the 4 months of competition period. Under the schools category, we have top 3 schools with the highest number of participants who have reduced 10% electricity consumption or more. They were Chongzheng Primary School, Sembawang Primary School and also Greenridge Primary School.

Winners received prizes from Mayor of South East District, Mr. Matthias Yao Chih, during Clean and Green Singapore 2008

Project Carbon Zero helped students realize that most households can reduce their electricity consumption by at least 10% by just adopting simple habits such as not leaving appliances on standby mode or by setting their air-conditioners at 25°C to reduce wastage. More energy saving tips can be found here.

NEA and SEC are organising the Project Carbon Zero competition again in 2009 and extending it to students from Secondary schools and Junior Colleges. There will be new award categories in the competition this year and participants will also stand to win more attractive prizes such as a digital camera, movie tickets and also a free participation in the Climate Change Trail (worth $98)

Details of the 2009 Project Carbon Zero competition have been circulated to schools. If you are interested to participate in this competition, you can find the details of competition here: or go to www.climatechange.sg for registration.