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Responsibility to the Environment Energy efficiency As a result of our energy-efficiency efforts in 2015 approximately 170000 megawatt hours of energy were saved. Our programs span across commercial residential and low-income sites and the savings captured in these programs help to keep our environment cleaner by reducing energy consumption as well as helping to educate our customers on other ways to manage their home energy consumption efficiently. Our Energy Wise program provided 14265 energy kits to Houston-area middle school students and explained water and energy conservation tips. More than 11000 new homes were part of our ENERGY STAR New Homes program which provided incentives to builders in our electric service territory. ENERGY STAR-certified new homes are designed and built to standards well above those of most other homes on the market today delivering energy efficiency savings of up to 30 percent higher than typical new homes. CenterPoint Energys Schools Conserving Resources SCORECitySmart program helps consumers identify ways to reduce energy costs specifically in public and private schools nonprofits colleges and governmental entities. In 2015 The University of Texas Medical Branch UTMB in Galveston had huge success in the SCORE program. UTMB completed 23 lighting projects across multiple facilities and received 212499 in incentives from CenterPoint Energy making it our largest participant in 2015. With the incentives from CenterPoint Energy and money saved on electric bills from the new efficient lighting UTMB will be able to purchase more energy- efficient equipment in 2016 and continue to reduce its load on the grid. Conservation Improvement Program Rebates from our Conservation Improvement Program encourage residential and business natural gas customers in Arkansas Minnesota Mississippi and Oklahoma to choose energy-efficient equipment and our other energy-saving programs also helped them save energy and money. In 2015 our customers saved more than 2.2 billion cubic feet of natural gas a company record and an energy cost saving of nearly 17.9 million the equivalent of the annual energy usage of about 27000 homes. These savings reduced our customers total carbon footprint by about 120000 metric tons which is equivalent to removing 20000 cars from the road for a year. Page 6 2015 Corporate Citizenship Report CenterPoint Energy is working to invest in our natural resources as well as promote energy efficiency to help conserve our environment. For the ninth consecutive year the company earned the Sustained Excellence in Program Delivery award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.