Energy Sustainability for Corporate Energy Users

The pressure is on for corporations—you have to do more with fewer and fewer resources. The challenges are great:

• Coping with fluctuating energy costs
• Meeting the need for more energy as consumption increases
• Reducing environmental risks, including your carbon footprint
• Keeping up with new options for lighting and other building technologies, energy management systems, and all kinds of new equipment
• Evaluating the performance of new technologies

How can you meet these challenges?
E Source provides the in-depth energy expertise, the most comprehensive repository of tools, and relevant business intelligence to help you manage and plan for your organization’s energy management and sustainability needs. Giving you insights and best practices for both the demand and supply sides of the energy field, E Source equips you to meet today’s challenges, helping you:

• Manage demand and reduce your energy consumption by knowing what technologies are most effective for your applications
• Devise and implement proactive procurement strategies to control and mitigate the volatility and risk associated with energy prices
• Address environmental risks head-on with greenhouse gas inventory assistance

Our members say:
“E Source’s extensive publication resources were pivotal in helping Ball start and develop our demand-management program. I’m provided with clear and concise responses and have experienced insights often beyond expectations with leveraged contact information for vendors, professionals, and other technical internet sites.” —Doug Barndt, Principal Energy Demand Engineer, Ball Corp.

E SOURCE’S ENERGY SUSTAINABILITY SERVICES FOR CORPORATE ENERGY USERS

Buy and use energy in an efficient and environmentally sound way

Corporate Energy Managers’ Consortium

Today’s corporate energy managers face a broad array of challenges and opportunities. Facing tight profit margins and tremendous price volatility, you can’t afford to get locked into a bad deal or to be locked out of deals that could help your business. We invite you to join an exclusive group of energy managers in the E Source Corporate Energy Managers’ Consortium (CEMC). These firms are finding the information they need and staying ahead of the market with the help of CEMC services, which include:

• Analysis of new energy management technologies
• Explanations of new energy procurement strategies
• Updates on performance contracting deals
• Up-to-the-minute intelligence

E Source Electricity and Natural Gas Price Forecasting Service

In today’s uncertain and volatile energy marketplace, accurate and reliable estimates of forward prices for electricity and natural gas can put your firm in the driver’s seat. Shaving even one cent per million Btu or a fraction of a cent per kilowatt-hour from your energy contracts can translate into hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in savings for your firm. This new optional service is available to CEMC members only. The electricity and natural gas price forecasts this service provides will help energy users in three key areas of energy management:

• Procurement. Negotiate supply contracts from an informed position.
• Budgeting. Our price data will give energy managers a tool for producing more-accurate energy budget forecasts.
• Energy service contract negotiations. Armed with our price forecasts, energy managers will have accurate data with which to evaluate the savings from proposed projects.

E Source Rebate & Incentive Finder

The E Source Rebate & Incentive Finder is your all-in-one resource for finding energy-efficiency rebate and incentive information for any location in the U.S. and Canada. This database offers more than 1,400 individual program profiles that are updated quarterly and contains the most comprehensive information available today on energy-efficiency and demand-response offerings from leading electric and gas utilities, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations.

The Rebate & Incentive Finder is a special add-on option for E Source Corporate Energy Managers’ Consortium members.

E Source EnergyWindow Strategic Energy Management

The most effective approach to energy supply management combines a long-term strategy with the best tools and resources available to execute that strategy. EnergyWindow provides a suite of energy supply management applications and support services that give commercial and industrial energy buyers the flexibility to complement their in-house resources with precisely the right mix of tools and expertise.

• Conduct energy sourcing bidding, select the best supplier based on price and other criteria, and notify suppliers with our web-based energy sourcing tool—all with the speed and flexibility required to take advantage of fleeting market opportunities.
• Budget energy costs more accurately with our energy cost projection and value-at-risk analysis tool—simulate a variety of energy prices, add in market conditions, and assess their combined impact on the bottom line.
• Organize contract and supplier information with our contract management tool—it’s invaluable for supporting a diversified energy portfolio and it’s one of the best ways to help manage risk.
• Build a customized, overall energy strategy and program that integrates business goals, management practices, and performance management with our proprietary energy management planning process—use this proven consulting approach to achieve ongoing energy cost reductions.

Click here to learn more about E Source EnergyWindow products and services.

OTHER TOOLS AND SERVICES FOR CORPORATE ENERGY USERS

Facility Metrics: Rank the energy performance of multiple facilities and identify opportunities for improvements.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Consulting: Inventory assistance and environmental risk mitigation.

For more information or to purchase these services, contact:

Arthur Venables
Senior Manager
E Source Corporate Energy Managers’ Consortium
Tel 303-345-9136
E-mail Arthur