Many states have made it mandatory for utilities to promote green energy and efficiency programs, and in some cases have even set customer conversion and product adoption targets. Changing public perception can be a heavy lift, especially for a utility that’s rarely going to win the battle for our limited attention spans. At EnergyCare, […]
ConservMore Provides Essential Retention Tool
EnergyCare is committed to providing our clients every advantage possible in preserving their loyal customer relationships. We also believe that energy conservation makes good financial and environmental sense. We bring these two goals together in a proprietary offering called Conservmore, an engaging web-based application that provides quantifiable, money-saving tips and unique insights to help consumers […]
Backup Plans Save Precious Brand Equity
Ravaging storms and natural disasters are too often in the news these days. Residents dealing with property loss, disruption of essential services and daily routines need as much continued support as we can give. For utility companies, a catastrophic event means a real test of responsiveness to infrastructure repair and the concerns of their customers. […]
Planning Ahead Can Save Customer Relationships
Ravaging storms and natural disasters are too often in the news these days. Residents dealing with property loss, disruption of essential services and daily routines need as much continued support as we can give. For utility companies, a catastrophic event means a real test of responsiveness to infrastructure repair and the concerns of their customers. […]
Backup Plan Can Save Customer Relationships
Storm season represents a perilous few months for residents along our coasts, as they brace for potential destruction of personal property and the disruption of essential services. For utility companies, a catastrophic storm means a real test of responsiveness to infrastructure repair and the concerns of their customers. It also means a lot of phone […]
EnergyCare Attains PCI Compliance
EnergyCare has announced its call center and data management systems have achieved PCI Compliance, allowing the organization to now provide a variety of secure financial services to its clients and their customers. Below is the press release, issued in June. St. Petersburg, Fla. – EnergyCare, LLC, a leading provider of customer care services to the […]
Trump Reverses Energy Climate Policy
On March 28, President Trump issued an executive order aimed at redirecting America’s energy and climate policies away from fighting carbon emissions to a focus on a “new era in American energy” where affordable, domestic energy is at a premium. President Trump invited a group of coal miners down to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency […]
Amazon Makes Big Investment in Solar
On March 2, the Seattle-based online retailer Amazon announced a new initiative to generate solar electricity from the roofs of its fulfillment and sorting facilities across the globe. By the end of this year, the company expects that it will generate 41 megawatts of power from sites in North America and it hopes to install […]
Exxon Mobile Refocuses on America
Any large corporation hates to admit when their assets have become uneconomic, but on February 22 Exxon Mobil disclosed that it had made the largest write-off of oil and gas reserves in modern history. The company erased from its books billions of dollars worth of potential oil and gas development in the Canadian oil sands, […]
Trump Coming for The Solyndra-Backing Office
During the campaign, Donald Trump frequently used the bankrupt solar company Solyndra as an example of failed government policies. The company took a loan from the federal government to make a novel solar product, and it was heavily hyped by then President Barack Obama. The company went belly up, however, and took down $500 million […]
Obama Finalizes Review of Federal Coal Program
One of the final acts of President Obama’s Interior Department was to wrap up a major review of the federal coal leasing program. The Obama administration imposed a three-year moratorium on new coal leases on federal land back in January 2016 and then began a massive reassessment. This was a high-profile effort for the President, […]
Tech Companies Seek Grid Data
On December 20, technology companies and trade groups working in the energy business issued a white paper calling on utility companies to share data. The companies and trade groups included TechNet, SolarCity, SunRun, UtilityAPI, and the Silicon Valley Leadership Group. They say that traditional grid processes must be “reimagined” to deal with the growth in innovations […]
New Study Calculates Solar Production’s Impact
Fossil fuel supporters like to say that all types of electricity generation have an environmental cost. Solar panels and windmills may not give off exhaust, but they do take energy to build and they can cause some other harms, like bird strikes. However, a new study looking at solar panels has estimated that all the […]
Solar Industry Breaks Records
According to the Solar Energy Industry Association’s latest report, the U.S. solar industry just completed its biggest quarter of all time. This is on the end of a long-upward trajectory from a negligible amount in the first quarter of 2010 to 4,143 megawatts of installed photovoltaic systems in the third quarter of 2016. The report […]
EnergyCare Makes Ad Splash with WEI
OK, we’ll just come right out and say it: Check out our cool ad in the latest issue of the Western Energy Institutes’s magazine! Western Energy is the quarterly voice of the WEI, distributed to more than 6,500 decision makers in the industry. EnergyCare felt it was important to make its members aware of our […]
Google To Go 100% Renewable Next Year
On December 6, Google announced that in 2017 it will reach “100 percent renewable for our global operations.” There is some debate about exactly what that means, but Google brags it was one of the first corporations to create large-scale, long-term contracts to buy renewable energy back in 2010 and now it is the world’s largest […]