Community Solar Popularity
An increasingly popular way to reduce energy costs is called community solar. This simply means having your utility deliver your electricity from a solar farm rather than, say, a coal power plant. Subscriber numbers are hard to find, but our conservative estimate is over 200,000 homes and businesses are already saving with community solar. Community…
Federal Energy Incentives Abound
Rural energy projects
Turn an Expense into an Investment
Are you weary of paying an electric bill for your business or non-profit, month after month? Many non-profits and businesses are turning this recurring expense into an investment. Rather than giving money to the utility every month, they’re using the same money–actually less!–to create their own energy asset. Here’s how it works: This is happening…
Mighty Heat Pump Incentives
Does your business have heating or cooling equipment nearing the end of its life? If so, state incentives can make a huge difference. The best incentives tend to be for heat pumps, which are highly efficient and run completely on electricity: Heat pumps use the compression / expansion cycle of a trapped gas to generate alternate…
Persistently High Electricity Costs Unrelated to Supply Chain Woes
While most small-medium businesses struggle with supply chain disruptions and higher costs, they’re also dealing with higher electricity prices. Across the U.S., electricity costs at least 20% more than it did a year ago. In some places it’s 80% more. Why? As we related in January, natural gas drives electricity prices. Natural gas exports from…
Lower Bill, Stronger Brand
How can you win more customers and simultaneously save money? We’ll show you! Large businesses are getting cheaper energy that happens to be cleaner. They’re using “cleaner” to engage more customers, win more contracts and even attract more employees. Now, small-medium businesses can do it, too. It’s all about finding your best-fit solution, and adjusting…
Triple Win For Small Businesses
Increasingly, businesses are recognizing a triple win with renewable energy. First, renewables provide a win for our world by reducing the ravages of climate change. Second, the business wins by reducing its energy costs. In most places, renewable alternatives now cost LESS than fossil-fueled power. (Here’s why.) Third, renewable energy provides a marketing advantage. It…
Electric Rates Are Up — To Stay
Fossil-fired electricity prices went up significantly in the last six months of 2021 across the entire U.S. In California prices went up 37% year-over-year. The Midwest saw a 97% rise. You get the picture. Even worse, the increases are here to stay. How can this be? Natural gas prices drive electricity prices, and gas is…
Maine Energy Costs Going WAY Up
If your business buys electricity from Central Maine Power, prices for all of 2022 are up a whopping 82%. (Compare same month prices in 2022 to 2021.) If you’re in Versant, it’s 77%. Ouch! If you’re buying power from the utility, brace yourself. (For help, see below.) Bills arriving in February – April will be…
Energy Scorecard: Sneak Peak
Sustaine’s unique and powerful software generates a customized Energy Scorecard from a single utility bill. The Scorecard reveals which of your energy options will deliver the most savings with the least effort–and it’s absolutely free. Sustaine’s software reveals where the savings are. Our value-added service (also free!) secures the solution via competitive bids and delivers…
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