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earth energy Group shares another energy efficiency tip to reduce expenses
Did you know you could be paying different rates for your electricity and / or natural gas in the same day?
Many utilities charge for Peak hours and Non-Peak hours based upon demand.
Take a look at your power bills or phone your Utility to learn when and if the rates changed.
Based upon what you learn MODIFY your use of Peak time energy as at all possible.
This simple strategy can mean hundreds or thousands of dollars each month.
Today’s Energy Efficiency Tip by your Energy Specifiers at earth energy Solutions GROUP.
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Responsible Steps Achieve Reduced Energy Spend
earth energy Solutions GROUP is doing the ‘grunt’ work most small businesses do not have the time or resources to devote; specifically related to the facilities within your organizations. We use Energy Star Portfolio Manager which is free to all businesses in the US (Canada by next year)
However, we are finding that ~6,000 buildings are Energy Star quality of the billions of office space in the US. Many that have come to us for assistance simply do not know the alternatives available to them and don’t really want to figure it out themselves.
Compare the cost to take on the Portfolio Manager in-house vs. outsourcing to experienced Energy Specifiers, like earth energy Solutions GROUP or another highly skilled ESCO. Regardless, you have a choice and need to act upon it urgently to mitigate rising energy spend.
- Obtain Reliable Accurate Data from every Utility
- Recover any billing errors and future savings from Utilities
- Bid out Energy Efficiency Solutions, equipment and services
- Guaranteed Energy Savings
- Financing options, rebates and incentives
- CO2 Reduction, improved Carbon Footprint
- Extended Energy Management, Proper, Safe Recycling
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earth energy Group debates LED Lighting indecision with business owners
… especially in our Schools and Government Buildings. OK, I stand corrected, every building with occupants.
When will intelligence, practicality and sustainability win over ignorance? I’ve often heard that the definition of ignorance is taking a firm stand on something you know little or nothing about. In today’s economic climate we cannot afford to take this position. Does it make sense to stand strong on something that causes your business to lose even more money?
Are you aware that LED Lighting upgrades alone can reduce your entire energy bill from 10-16% or more and you can pay for the upgrades through the savings alone? A wonderful byproduct of this action is reducing the CO2 and other toxic emissions (like PCB’s and mercury) and pollution inside and outside of the buildings. Being Green may not be ‘your thing’ but it adds to your longevity regardless.
It is no wonder business owners today find it daunting to make decisions about retrofitting or replacing their lighting, upgrading their HVAC, placing reflective surfaces on the roof or leveraging geothermal technology.
Then we face rapid technological improvements, the Government ‘telling us’ we have to make a change by reducing energy consumption (which makes more sense than most policy decisions) along with little or no working capital available. How dare they?
This panic over the potential cost of doing business can easily be avoided with a bit of education and it need not ‘cost you’.
TIP … Analyze Cost vs. Price. Cost over the lifetime of the energy efficient improvements begin to make sense. The ROI (your actual return on the investment) and reality of saving money immediately as opposed to spending more than necessary for less quality, toxic exposure and health compromise which all cost the business money.
Sounds simple and it can be if you become properly educated on the economics of energy efficiency within your own facilities.
IT IS ALL ABOUT PERCEPTION, we do not know what we do not know. That can be very expensive at times.
Consider accepting a helping hand from earth energy Solutions Group to prove your expense reduction options.
earth energy Group supports Good Energy Management through Energy Star Tools
Knowing the facts about your energy consumption opens up the door to corrective measures that reduce your annualized energy spend. Allow earth energy Solutions GROUP to uncover the inefficiencies and readily design a plan with corrective measures with on demand and automatic monitoring.
Reducing your energy spend while improving clean air, health and safety standards, inside and out.
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ENERGY STAR Reveals 3 Findings About Energy Waste and earth energy Solutions GROUP offers Energy Cost Avoidance |
ENERGY STAR reveals three key findings about energy waste in US organizations.
- Energy waste is widespread among organizations, regardless of type—commercial, education, and government entities are equally guilty of wasting energy.
- There is a 400% variation in building energy use in the United States. Statistically, this variation is not explained by factors such as weather, hours of operation, age of the building, technology, or square footage.
- Although “building components are 30% more efficient since 1980,” there has been little improvement of overall energy consumption. Buildings have become more efficient, but not less wasteful.
Source: Good Energy Management is Good Business, www.energystar.gov.
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Comments of the American Council for an Energy-‐Efficient Economy
on
The Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012, S. 2146
ENERGY EFFICIENT ECONOMY regulatory-comments-on-CES-S2146 <– click to open document
Submitted to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Steven Nadel, Executive Director
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
Washington, DC
May 17, 20 12
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Energy Conservation vs. Energy Efficiency: What’s the Difference?
The OPEC oil embargo and related energy shortages and gas lines in the 1970s…
The President of the United States sitting in a cardigan asking all Americans to turn down their thermostats and industries to run factories at partial capacity…being somewhat less comfortable…
Sacrificing…
These are such graphic images of energy and national security in the American consciousness that they often are the first thoughts that come to mind when the words “energy conservation” are heard.
But energy efficiency is a far cry from the energy conservation images and practices of old – of doing with less or doing without, of being uncomfortable or less comfortable. Not unlike the tremendous technological strides on the computer, electronics, and other fronts, energy efficiency takes advantage of advances in technology to provide significantly better, smarter services.
Energy efficiency means:
- Using advanced and state-of-the-art technologies to provide better quality energy services with less energy.
- Getting the most productivity from every unit of energy.
- Getting the desired energy services — comfortable homes, profitable businesses, convenient transportation — with less energy use, less air pollution, and lower total cost.
- Using energy wisely.
- Eliminating energy waste.
- Using technology to easily reduce energy use without having to daily “remember” to do it yourself
Energy efficiency means getting more in columns A and B below for less in column C.
| Column A | Column B | Column C |
| comfort | productivity | money |
| heating | affordability | pollution |
| quality | performance | energy |
| jobs | cooling | hassle |
| lighting | control | waste |
Energy efficiency is a valuable resource that creates a win-win solution on multiple fronts. One action = five major consumer and societal benefits. It saves consumers money, increases comfort, protects the environment, enhances the economy, and promotes national security.
When energy efficiency is combined with smart energy practices — like turning off lights, TVs computers, and electronics, that you’re not using — all of the benefits above are compounded.
http://ase.org/resources/energy-conservation-vs-energy-efficiency-whats-difference
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Be the difference in your Community, create Negawatts through energy efficiency
Thank you earth energy Solutions GROUP for participating in U.S. EPA’s January 18th webcast on “Making an Impact on Energy Use in Your Community: EPA’s Green Power Communities and Local Climate and Energy Program.” You are receiving this email because you indicated in our exit survey that you would like to learn more about our Climate Showcase Communities Program.
EPA’s Climate Showcase Communities Program helps local and tribal governments pilot innovative, cost-effective, and replicable community-based greenhouse gas reduction projects. Your community can learn from these pilot projects and replicate their successes.
There are 50 Climate Showcase Communities across the U.S. that represent a range of cities, towns, and tribal governments. These projects can help communities become more energy efficient and save consumers money through creative energy production, residential and commercial energy efficiency, waste management, transportation, and land use projects.
Each community is testing an innovative climate mitigation strategy. EPA awarded $20 million in grant funding to these 50 pilot communities, and provides peer exchange, training, and technical support to all communities interested in replicating Climate Showcase Community projects.
All communities can take action to reduce greenhouse gas pollution—and improve people’s health and quality of life by reducing air pollution, making communities more walkable, and reducing energy bills at the same time.
To learn what your community can do, visit: www.epa.gov/climateshowcase
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Make 2012 Brighter for Less; Do the eco.nomics
Seeking Patriots with energy experience
As earth energy Solutions GROUP grows so does the need for qualified Electrical Technicians, Engineers and Energy Efficiency Experts.
If you are searching for a home with integrity and purpose, a place that recognizes “business as usual” is NOT what America needs, consider joining us to make a substantial difference in the lives of others.
We champion the Energy Efficiency movement with our end users throughout the United States by analyzing their current and projected energy use. Together we then determine what energy efficiency measures are practical for each end user.
We implement only the sustainable solutions, unique to each end user.
Please submit your BIO to Analysis@eeSGroup.US for consideration.
earth energy Group salutes Building Energy Upgrades announced
President Obama Announces Nearly $4 Billion in Building Energy Upgrades
 Workers like this one putting insulation into a wall will help transform public and private sector buildings through energy upgrades.Credit: Dennis Schroeder, NREL |
President Obama announced on December 2 nearly $4 billion in combined federal and private sector energy upgrades to buildings over the next two years. These investments will save billions in energy costs, promote energy independence, and, according to independent estimates, create tens of thousands of jobs in the hard-hit construction sector. The $4 billion investment includes a $2 billion commitment, made through the issuance of a presidential memorandum, to energy upgrades of federal buildings using long-term energy savings to pay for up-front costs, at no cost to taxpayers. In addition, 60 Chief Executive Officers, mayors, university presidents, and labor leaders committed to invest nearly $2 billion of private capital into energy efficiency projects. They also pledged to upgrade energy performance by a minimum of 20% by 2020 in 1.6 billion square feet of office, industrial, municipal, hospital, university, community college, and school buildings.
The commitments were announced by President Obama and former President Clinton along with representatives from more than 60 organizations as part of DOE’s Better Buildings Challenge. The challenge is part of the Better Buildings Initiative launched in February by the president. President Clinton is spearheading the effort along with the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness to support job creation by catalyzing private sector investment in commercial and industrial building energy upgrades to make buildings 20% more efficient over the next decade. Such improvements would reduce energy costs for U.S. businesses by nearly $40 billion. Last year, commercial buildings consumed roughly 20% of all energy used by the U.S. economy.
Among those pledging to reduce energy consumption were the District of Columbia, which is committed to a multi-pronged action plan to reduce energy consumption in more than 90 million square feet of city- and privately held buildings in the downtown core by at least 20% by 2020. And Prologis, a global leader in industrial real estate, has made it a key priority to work with its customers to reduce energy consumption in 100 million square feet by 20% by 2020. See the White House press release.
To save money or not to save money . lightbulb question of the day.
It boils down to understanding the cost of lighting including maintenance and comparing to more energy efficient alternatives to add unexpected revenue to your bottom line.
View our Generic Presentation on HOW to save money now and through the next decade. We don’t know what we don’t know … until that day when we NEED TO KNOW.
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Commercial Average Monthly Bill by Census Division, and State
Report Released: November 2010
Next Release Date: November 2011
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Table 5B. xls format Electric Sales, Revenue, and Price
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| Table 5B. Commercial Average Monthly Bill by Census Division, and State, 2009 | ||||||
| Census Division State | Number of Consumers | Average Monthly Consumption (kWh) | Average Retail Price (Cents per Kilowatthour) | Average Monthly Bill (Dollar and cents) | ||
| New England | 810,701 | 4,649 | 15.23 | $707.90 | ||
| Connecticut | 148,175 | 7,456 | 16.86 | $1,257.12 | ||
| Maine | 87,923 | 3,859 | 12.55 | $484.06 | ||
| Massachusetts | 375,507 | 3,945 | 15.37 | $606.47 | ||
| New Hampshire | 92,630 | 3,995 | 14.55 | $581.23 | ||
| Rhode Island | 56,385 | 5,455 | 13.67 | $745.38 | ||
| Vermont | 50,081 | 3,313 | 12.93 | $428.53 | ||
| Middle Atlantic | 2,190,404 | 6,130 | 13.38 | $820.19 | ||
| New Jersey | 476,354 | 6,889 | 13.83 | $952.82 | ||
| New York | 1,034,835 | 6,068 | 15.51 | $940.83 | ||
| Pennsylvania | 679,215 | 5,694 | 9.54 | $543.37 | ||
| East North Central | 2,388,254 | 6,271 | 9.84 | $617.30 | ||
| Illinois | 575,801 | 7,284 | 11.31 | $823.87 | ||
| Indiana | 341,437 | 5,782 | 8.32 | $481.01 | ||
| Michigan | 520,551 | 6,063 | 9.24 | $560.11 | ||
| Ohio | 613,740 | 6,160 | 9.65 | $594.58 | ||
| Wisconsin | 336,725 | 5,562 | 9.57 | $532.08 | ||
| West North Central | 1,354,165 | 6,002 | 7.43 | $445.74 | ||
| Iowa | 215,993 | 4,516 | 7.55 | $341.16 | ||
| Kansas | 218,800 | 5,716 | 7.87 | $450.08 | ||
| Minnesota | 273,429 | 6,800 | 7.92 | $538.24 | ||
| Missouri | 368,476 | 6,874 | 6.96 | $478.43 | ||
| Nebraska | 154,061 | 5,038 | 7.33 | $369.34 | ||
| North Dakota | 57,435 | 6,614 | 6.81 | $450.33 | ||
| South Dakota | 65,971 | 5,354 | 7.14 | $382.27 | ||
| South Atlantic | 3,531,880 | 7,179 | 9.61 | $689.94 | ||
| Delaware | 49,057 | 7,109 | 11.98 | $851.69 | ||
| District of Columbia | 30,632 | 26,426 | 12.96 | $3,426.13 | ||
| Florida | 1,125,135 | 6,834 | 10.77 | $735.96 | ||
| Georgia | 545,860 | 7,035 | 8.94 | $629.00 | ||
| Maryland | 242,640 | 10,237 | 11.97 | $1,225.27 | ||
| North Carolina | 650,652 | 5,922 | 7.98 | $472.59 | ||
| South Carolina | 343,793 | 5,197 | 8.74 | $454.02 | ||
| Virginia | 407,458 | 9,577 | 8.06 | $771.55 | ||
| West Virginia | 136,653 | 4,692 | 6.77 | $317.55 | ||
| East South Central | 1,325,309 | 5,130 | 9.26 | $474.84 | ||
| Alabama | 353,885 | 5,161 | 10.05 | $518.89 | ||
| Kentucky | 293,614 | 5,306 | 7.63 | $404.75 | ||
| Mississippi | 222,861 | 4,866 | 9.50 | $462.25 | ||
| Tennessee | 454,949 | 5,122 | 9.61 | $491.97 | ||
| West South Central | 2,147,984 | 6,670 | 8.94 | $596.11 | ||
| Arkansas | 177,635 | 5,384 | 7.56 | $406.96 | ||
| Louisiana | 269,166 | 7,214 | 7.69 | $555.09 | ||
| Oklahoma | 266,110 | 5,844 | 6.76 | $394.92 | ||
| Texas | 1,435,073 | 6,881 | 9.66 | $664.53 | ||
| Mountain | 1,315,787 | 5,851 | 8.53 | $498.84 | ||
| Arizona | 299,528 | 8,176 | 9.35 | $764.52 | ||
| Colorado | 349,267 | 4,774 | 8.15 | $389.18 | ||
| Idaho | 100,210 | 4,994 | 6.49 | $323.89 | ||
| Montana | 100,207 | 3,975 | 8.32 | $330.65 | ||
| Nevada | 153,621 | 4,855 | 10.64 | $516.70 | ||
| New Mexico | 135,702 | 5,364 | 8.40 | $450.45 | ||
| Utah | 117,905 | 7,234 | 6.96 | $503.23 | ||
| Wyoming | 59,347 | 6,021 | 7.28 | $438.43 | ||
| Pacific Contiguous |
2,388,971 | 5,830 | 11.69 | $681.62 | ||
| California | 1,801,936 | 5,601 | 13.42 | $751.56 | ||
| Oregon | 236,230 | 5,636 | 7.49 | $421.92 | ||
| Washington | 350,805 | 7,140 | 6.96 | $497.24 | ||
| Pacific Noncontiguous |
108,206 | 4,797 | 18.48 | $886.72 | ||
| Alaska | 47,337 | 5,002 | 14.46 | $723.13 | ||
| Hawaii | 60,869 | 4,638 | 21.86 | $1,013.94 | ||
| U.S. Total | 17,561,661 | 6,203 | 10.26 | $636.36 | ||
| * = Value is less than half of the smallest unit of measure (e.g., for values with no decimals, the smallest unit is “1” then values under 0.5 are shown as “*”.) | ||||||
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