EmPOWER Your Business
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Gathering knowledge is the first step toward making progress. Below are ten things you can do right now to begin down the path to perfect power.
1. Exercise the power of the purse
Technology exists right now that can save your business money, improve the quality and reliability of your electric service, and put you in charge of your power.
2. Uncover ancient (utility) history
Once upon a time, the closed, regulated monopoly structure of the utility industry worked well for electricity consumers. It doesn’t anymore. Learn why.
3. Calculate your costs
Today’s unreliable and inefficient electric power system is costing your business money and making it less competitive in the global marketplace.
4. Explore the angles
Learn why investing in on-site generating capacity might make sense for your business.
5. Demand control
Chances are if you knew what time of day power was the most expensive, and could pay for power only when you use it, you’d use a lot less “peak time” - read expensive - energy. Now federal law says you have to be given that option. Contact your local utility program and tell them you want time-of-use pricing and smart metering.
6. Meet the innovators
Transformation is possible. Here are a few stories about those who are leading the way.
7. Write your representatives
Government must be both a financial and a policy partner in any successful effort to transform the electric power system. Let the elected officials who work for you in Washington and your state capital know that you care, and that you’re watching them.
8. Get more information
Here are some other ways to learn more about your power system — and your business’s options for electric power service.
9. Use Less
There are a number of ways to save electricity — and by extension, money — in your business. Most of them aren’t as easy as simply turning down the heat, but the U.S. government and many organizations offer plenty of help
10. Tell us your business story
Has your business jumped off the grid and into the 21st century? Or have you recently learned the hard way about the system you depend on now? We want to know.
