KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The most recent SkillsUSA competition had among its 94 contests one dealing with Sustainability Solutions in which persons in high school and postsecondary schools demonstrated their ideas on wind, solar, and other green alternatives for generating power.
But for the 53 contestants a few aisles over in the Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration contest, the focus was on servicing power-consuming equipment in the best way to ensure that the HVACR mechanicals were as energy efficient as possible, regardless of what was generating the power to run them.