April 4, 2011 at 9:00 am

Remember when energy was easy? You got a bill from the utility and you paid it. Then came the deregulation of natural gas, then electricity, the need to audit bills, energy service companies with their shared savings models, risk management, demand response programs, smart meters, carbon footprinting and incentives for renewables. Back then, nobody bothered [...]

January 19, 2011 at 4:33 pm

Depending on the amount of energy your company uses, it could be a candidate for participating in demand response (DR), the popular grid-sponsored programs that pay businesses like yours not to use energy during times of peak demand. While the enrollment deadline for many of next year’s DR programs is months away, DR providers (DRPs), [...]