Business Solutions Toolkit lets customers reduce energy use, bills

PORTLAND, Ore. – To further assist business customers, Pacific Power will conduct a free internet seminar at 10 a.m., Nov. 5. The one-hour session is designed to help commercial customers discover and implement energy efficiency opportunities.

 

To sign up customers can simply log on to: pacificpower.net/webinar.

 

The webinar will show Pacific Power business customers how to get the most of the company’s newly-launched Business Solutions Toolkit. The toolkit is a package of free, online resources that provide customers advice and information for managing their energy use and costs.

 

The toolkit includes industry-specific benchmark data, interactive analysis tools, energy-saving recommendations a library of online energy information resources. The toolkit also includes a real-time “Ask an Expert” service where customers can get answers to their own energy questions. Customers can access the toolkit at: pacificpower.net/toolkit.

 

“We wanted to provide our customers with another service that helps them save energy, increase profits and compete in this tough economic climate,” said Pat Egan, Pacific Power vice president for community and customer affairs.

 

Through the online toolkit, customers can even conduct energy self-assessments just by filling in basic facts about their facility and reviewing customized data designed to help them make informed energy saving decisions.

 

Since its introduction during the summer of 2009, the toolkit has been among the most used business resources on Pacific Power’s Web site. 

 

“We focus on providing customers with the service they expect and information they need,” said Egan. “These tools provide just a bit more at a particularly critical time for all businesses. Saving energy can help customers reduce cost. Those pennies can add up, and that is crucial in today’s economy.”

 

About Pacific Power

Pacific Power strives to promote innovation and works with customers and communities to increase the visibility of renewable energy generation technologies through education and community outreach. Pacific Power is headquartered in Portland and provides electric service to more than 724,000 customers in Oregon, Washington and California. As part of PacifiCorp, one of the lowest-cost electricity producers in the United States, Pacific Power and Rocky Mountain Power provide more than 1.7 million customers in six Western states with reliable, efficient energy. PacifiCorp works to meet growing energy demand while protecting and enhancing the environment and was recently recognized as the second largest utility owner of wind power capacity in the nation.