More Businesses Teaming on Energy Purchases Through Boston Buying Power Program
October 26 2009 - 8:56AM
Business Wire
In the eleven months since Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced the
formation of Boston Buying Power, hundreds of Boston’s small
businesses have teamed together to purchase electricity and control
energy costs on the open market. In a recent example of Boston
Buying Power program participants gaining access to energy prices
and plans not normally available to individual small businesses,
retail energy provider Constellation NewEnergy, a subsidiary of
Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG) signed 178 businesses to an
aggregated electricity supply agreement for 117,000,000
kilowatt-hours of electricity. The agreement gives participating
businesses access to fixed pricing for a year and includes a
provision that 10 percent of the electricity will come from
renewable energy sources.
“Boston Buying Power gives service providers like Constellation
NewEnergy the ability to offer large groups of small businesses
competitive rates, fixed prices that shield against market
fluctuations, and renewable energy offerings,” said John Bennett,
senior vice president of sales for Constellation NewEnergy.
“Constellation NewEnergy is very pleased to be serving more than
400 businesses in total through the Boston Buying Power program,
and delivering the benefits of competitive energy markets to a
wider range of Greater Boston customers.”
Taylor Consulting, the national utility management firm that
serves as the Boston Buying Power preferred broker, oversees the
program’s electricity procurement, holding auctions every 45 days
and aggregating individual businesses into purchasing groups.
Taylor also offers participants state-of-the-art energy management
platforms that give customers insight into energy usage and
potential for further benefits through efficiency improvements.
“Combining the leverage gained through volume with the expertise
from industry leading energy consultants and service providers
gives Boston’s businesses of all sizes the ability to make
competitive energy markets work for them,” said Scott Stiner, chief
operating officer of Taylor Consulting. “Boston Buying Power
demonstrates the City’s commitment to a healthy and competitive
small business community and the level of participation so far
indicates that individual businesses are responding more than
favorably to the program.”
After just nine months, Boston Buying Power has already
proved to be a tool for the business community that provides
long-range stability at a time of otherwise uncertainty. Since
Mayor Menino launched the program last November, more than 800
commercial and industrial companies, as well as non-profits from
across the City, have benefited from being enrolled in the
program.
For more information or to enroll in Boston Buying Power contact
888-317-3923/sales@utilitymodule.com or visit
www.bostonbuyingpower.com.
About Constellation NewEnergy
Constellation NewEnergy (www.newenergy.com) is a leading
competitive supplier of electricity, natural gas and energy-related
services to commercial, industrial and institutional customers
throughout the United States. A subsidiary of Constellation Energy
(NYSE: CEG), Constellation NewEnergy operates in all competitive
energy markets throughout the U.S., providing products that enable
customers to effectively manage and control energy costs.
About Constellation Energy
Constellation Energy (www.constellation.com) is a leading
supplier of energy products and services to wholesale and retail
electric and natural gas customers. It owns a diversified fleet of
generating units located throughout the United States, totaling
approximately 9,000 megawatts of generating capacity, and is among
the leaders pursuing the development of new nuclear plants in the
United States. The company delivers electricity and natural gas
through the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE), its regulated
utility in Central Maryland. A FORTUNE 500 company headquartered in
Baltimore, Constellation Energy had revenues of $19.8 billion in
2008.
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