Scott Cooney
Oahu
For Scott Cooney, it was as simple as “seeing a need” which led him to create
Pono Home, a home energy efficiency company. “There are many people who have
the energy conservation mindset, yet do not know how to
contribute,” Cooney explains. He created his company in April of 2014 with a goal to save
customers money on utility bills, and reduce their carbon footprints.
Pono Home offers customized, in-home services to save money on water and
electricity bills while simultaneously protecting our planet. The team comes to your
home or business and provides a free green audit, assessing issues that cause you to
spend too much on your utilities. Pono Home identifies “energy hog” appliances,
faulty electronics, inefficient lighting, poor building envelope, leaks and more. They
then offer customers energy efficient options, along with a proposal that includes
calculations showing how fast the customer will earn back their money, and how
much carbon pollution they will be keeping out of our air. They use easy-to-understand approaches, like showing customers the equivalent in terms of the
number of trees that would need to be planted, or the number of cars taken off the
road.
When asked about the motivation behind creating Pono Home, Cooney has a
simple response. “It’s just the kind of guy that I am,” he says. “A conservationist, a
biker, an entrepreneur [that has] always had a reduce-waste mindset.” He first
noticed this opportunity when he found himself pointing out to friends and family simple ways to cut their bills. “Even my green minded
friends were not aware of energy hogs,” he says. “It’s not a lack of desire, it’s a lack
of knowledge.” Cooney has spent the past four years bridging this gap in education
by making homes healthier and greener everyday.
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