Cleantech Open Announces Dragonfly Solutions as Sustainability Winner

Utah Cleantech Company Wins $10,000 Top Sustainability Prize in the Rocky Mountain Region Cleantech Open and a chance to compete for the $250,000 National Grand Prize in in November.

Denver, October 6, 2011: The Cleantech Open (www.cleantechopen.org), the world’s largest cleantech accelerator, has announced Dragonfly Solutions as the Regional Sustainability Finalist that will represent the Rocky Mountain Region in a final showdown at the Cleantech Global Forum in San Jose, California, November 15 and 16. It was a night full of accolades for Dragonfly Solutions, being selected from an elite group of 34 Energy Efficiency clean tech start-ups as the company most effectively incorporating a triple-bottom-line approach to its business.

“Competing at the 2011 Global Forum in November will allow winners to take their story to a national audience.” said Rex Northern, executive director of the Cleantech Open. There were 157 total Cleantech Open Semifinalists in 2011, from across the United States in seven regions.

“The Cleantech Open really helped us understand the value of focusing on and owning one market,” says Dragonfly co-founder and President Jacqueline Zielenski. “Schools are the first target for our electricity-saving systems because they are suffering from escalating electrical rates. Dragonfly’s patent-pending technology can reduce energy consumption by up to 20%, with a payoff of two years.”

Dragonfly combines three types of energy-savings technologies into one system – at one-fifth the cost as compared to other solutions. Their solution monitors all energy data continuously and “tunes” the electrical system automatically to reduce energy consumption. The hardware and software components of Dragonfly systems condition power, regulate voltage, mitigate harmonics, and filter surges and spikes.

As a Benefit Corporation, dedicated to People, Planet and Profit, Dragonfly Solutions sees sustainability as its driving force, completely aligned with their core values and business practices. “Winning the Sustainability Award for the Rocky Mountain Cleantech Open was a nod from the organization about how we approach the triple-bottom-line throughout our business model. It’s really quite an honor,” said Zielenski. “Plus,” she added, “the life cycle of a product—especially for a manufacturing firm—has a great deal of sustainability opportunity.”

Zielenski is putting a “Take Back Scheme” in place, working with each city or state Dragonfly sells to. Some communities have programs in place. Where there isn’t a program, Dragonfly will develop their own, to ensure that products do not end up in landfills.

About Dragonfly Solutions Inc.™
Dragonfly Solutions, Inc. is a Maryland Benefit Corporation that manufactures patent-pending Energy Efficiency Systems for K-12 School Districts across America. Its Energy Efficiency Systems provide comprehensive energy efficiency solutions that reduce energy consumption, allow demand-side management and provide Schools with proprietary funding solutions. For more information, visit www.dragonflysolutions.co.

Dragonfly Solutions, Inc.
1519 York Rd
Lutherville, MD 21093

Press Contact: Jacqueline Zielenski
j.zielenski@dragonflysolutions.co

This release was published on openPR.