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The Power of Technology: For Your Business

You've got the business smarts. Here's what you can explore on the Innovation to Inspiration mobile exhibit to make your business' energy consumption smart as well.

ELECTRICITY

• PriceLock - PriceLock allows you to lock in the energy supply portion of your overall electricity costs, as well as other supply-related costs such as Ancillaries, Capacity and Losses.
• PriceFloat - Ride the market and benefit from lower prices when the market dips. A rate per kilowatt hour follows the electricity market for the length of your contract.
• PriceChoice - Respond to the changing electricity market by using a blend of fixed and variable rates per kilowatt hour during the length of your contract.

NATURAL GAS

• PriceLock - With PriceLock, your natural gas supply price is locked in a fixed rate for the length of your contract, protecting your budget from fluctuations in the market.
• PriceFloat - With this product your natural gas supply rate will float on market rates, allowing you to pursue competitive pricing and lock in when prices are at your desired levels.
• PriceChoice - Respond to a changing natural gas market with a blend of fixed and variable rates per dekatherm during the length of your contract. Products include GasPortfolio, PRiME, NYMEX Plus, Price Protection and Trigger Services.

DATA AND ANALYTICS

• Panoramic Power™ - Easily monitor energy usage in your building with small, wireless sensors from Panoramic Power. Improve operational efficiency, identify usage and savings opportunities and avoid potential equipment failure in advance with device-level monitoring.
• PowerBuy® - PowerBuy® lets you compete for the best price for your energy supply by bidding for blocks of power on the wholesale market. Unlike other online auction platforms, this program gives you the ability to execute your event whenever market conditions align with your strategy, allowing you to leverage the events to your advantage and save money by offering direct prices from wholesale suppliers.
• InvoiceASSURE - InvoiceASSURE streamlines the invoice auditing and management process for all of your company's utility bills. Easily aggregate all of your utility data for timely reports and devise effective strategies for controlling your utility costs.

DEMAND RESPONSE

Direct Energy Business energy professionals will help you find simple, non-disruptive ways to curtail your energy consumption and deliver state-of-the-art monitoring technology that provides usage insights at the equipment level. We can facilitate Demand Response in many of the markets we serve and often.

ADVISORY SERVICES

• PowerPortfolio® - PowerPortfolio® is a customized, wholesale electricity procurement product that combines fixed and variable pricing strategies, as well as personal consultation. A dedicated energy analyst will work with you to craft a customized energy strategy and execute against that plan.
• Load Following Block & Index - The Load Following Block & Index product offers a unique combination of budget stability and purchasing flexibility. Lock in up to 100% of your power usage, while your remaining power supply is purchased and billed at market-based rates.
• GasPortfolio - GasPortfolio is a managed natural gas procurement solution which combines the energy experience of Direct Energy Business professionals with market intelligence and reporting so that you can outline your energy strategy and monitor your progress against your strategy.

SMART THERMOSTAT

Fixed Rate & Smart Thermostat for Small Businesses - The Smart Learning Thermostat programs itself and automatically helps save energy when you're away. And you can control it using your phone, tablet or laptop. You'll also enjoy reliable fixed rates on the energy type of your choice.

COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS

• Fleet CNG - With a compressed natural gas (CNG) fleet, you can realize immediate cost savings and make a positive difference to the environment. Direct Energy Business and our partner American Natural Gas, LLC (ANG) build, own, operate and maintain heavy-duty CNG fueling stations for fleet customers across North America.
• Stationary CNG - Direct Energy Business and Xpress Natural Gas provide your facility with a connection to the gas pipeline by trucking this less expensive, environmentally friendly fuel to you regardless of where you are located.

SOLAR

Direct Energy Business provides solar project facilitation through a solar power partner. Solar panels may be installed on-site or you may select a remote solar option with no impact on your facility. With cutting-edge battery storage technology, our solar programs can help businesses and government organizations to reduce peak demand and can also provide backup power during grid outages, often at a lower price than you currently pay for energy.

EFFICIENCY

EfficiencyEdge offers you a fast and easy way to reduce energy consumption by employing the following tactics:

• Identify opportunities to reduce energy consumption/maintenance costs
• Prioritize projects with greatest opportunity to reduce usage
• Identify and secure all available incentives/rebates on your behalf to reduce production costs
• Execute efficiency upgrades in a timely, high quality and cost-effective manner
• Integrate project costs into an energy supply agreement so you can benefit from on-bill financing, rather than incurring up-front funding costs

MAKE ME GREEN

The Make Me Green Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) purchase program is a great compliment to your electricity buying program.

• RECs help meet your company's environmental commitment
• Purchased RECs are Green-e®Certified
• This program can be combined with any of our electricity plan options