BUE News and Events

Two great companies coming together to offer opportunities in energy conservation & cost reductions:

Buffalo, NY- February 1, 2012- Award-winning Energy Curtailment Specialists (ECS) and BidURenergy, Inc. (BUE) have come together to create powerCONNECT, a referral-based program designed for service providers, consultants or others that wish to offer energy procurement or demand response services to their clients. Through this program, the powerCONNECT partner will earn cash when they refer a customer, business associate, or anyone they know that signs with ECS or BUE!

ECS is the largest private demand response provider in North America, offering risk-free and no-cost programs to all types of businesses interested in earning payments for participating in demand response. Customers are paid to reduce energy during volatile times on the grid in an effort to prevent potential blackouts. BUE is the fastest growing energy consultant in North America, bringing low energy rates and big savings to more than 10,000 client facilities across the country. Leveraging its size and mass, BUE acquires the lowest rates on electric and natural gas for customers through their PowerPit! blind auction platform.

The Cross State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) was finalized by the US Environmental Agency (EPA) on July 6, 2011. The goal of this regulation is to decrease health issues caused by power plant emissions. This rule is expected to cause electricity prices to increase significantly because coal generating plants will have to implement emissions reducing upgrades or close the plant.

The CSAPR was recently put on hold by the US Court of Appeals. This is good news for now but it is still expected to be implemented in the future, which will increase costs. Stay tuned for more information.

The natural gas (NG) market has currently hit its lowest point in 10 years. Electricity rates follow the NG trends due to NG generation during peak demand hours. Now is the perfect time to consider locking in electric and/or NG fixed rates. Acting fast is essential because cold temperatures are on the horizon.

The Annual Baseline Assessment of Choice in Canada and the United States was recently released. This report reflects the growing strength of competition and industry innovations in states with retail markets. New York ranked third for large commercial and industrial (C&I) customers, just behind Texas and Illinois. NY ranked second for residential, behind TX. Pennsylvania trailed NY by one in each category. New Jersey is in the middle ranking 10th for large C&I customers and 12th for residential.

Pennsylvania has ranked second in the nation for amount of emissions released from electricity generation plants. This is mainly due to the amount of coal generation in the state. With the recent EPA regulations this could result in rates to increase and cause reliability issues for the Keystone State. As no surprise to energy professionals, Texas ranked number one. TX has been the number one state fighting the EPA on their regulations. Since the state already suffers from reliability problems, they fear the regulations could cause major issues.

January 10, 2012- The rising energy consulting firm, BidURenergy (BUE), has published a much anticipated introduction video on its newly designed website. The video combines state of the art graphics and animation with a useful summary of the firm's PowerPit™ blind auction platform. BUE's graphic artist provide easy to understand visual effects to help prospective clients appreciate the benefits of using the firm to procure electricity and natural gas. The video can be seen by clicking here.

If you have any questions or would like more information on our program, please contact:
Mark Bookhagen
4455 Genesee Street
Buffalo, NY 14220
877-669-8243

Over the past decade many stakeholders including utilities, system operators, and regulators have been working to modernize the electric utility delivery system, also known as “the grid”, starting with infrastructural changes. The 21st century grid is referred to as the “Smart Grid” because devices throughout the system have been computerized allowing utilities and operators to monitor and adjust activities from remote locations. Changes to infrastructure vary across geographical areas depending on population size, economics and population needs. Massive amounts of data are being generated from both the grid and consumer side leading to the next phase in the smart grid evolution. Utility companies need to establish systems for analyzing the data to deliver the seemingly infinite value in the grid to both management and consumer operations. Possible areas data analyses will impact are in timely detection of required maintenance along the grid, real time usage statistics, early notification of stresses on the grid (i.e. demand response), finding uses for other smart energy technologies, and rate reduction due to lowering usage during peak hours.

It can be easy to forget that everyday activities have lasting impacts on the environment. At BidURenergy (BUE), we strive to help our customers lessen their impact on the environment by decreasing their energy usage and employing green sourced generation when possible. To see the impact your facility has, simply calculate what is known as your “carbon footprint”—the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) released into the atmosphere due to the consumption of fossil fuels. Many easy-to-use online tools are available that accurately measure your footprint (EPA Carbon Calculator). CO2 and other greenhouse gases trap heat, which drastically affects our climate!

BUFFALO, NY / PRBuzz.com / December 21, 2011 - - Making waves in the energy procurement industry for the past five years, BidURenergy, Inc. (BUE) has added a new weapon to their arsenal that has careless utilities companies trembling. The firm, headquartered in Buffalo, NY, recently contracted industry leading ECS Business Services to audit its clients' utility bills. With over $2 million recovered within a month of the program lauch, thanks in large part thanks to a few egregious billings errors, the recently developed algorithms and software have reach near mythical proportions within investor owned utility inner circles.

Their strategy is basic in principle, but complex in action. They use software to recreate business' bills with the usage information and complex tariffs (documents stating rate structures). If the Total Bill Amount from the software and the Total Bill Amount on the business' actual bill do not match, analysts figure out where the mistake might be and quickly act to facilitate a refund. Since there can be hundreds of cost components incorporated into each bill, it is obvious why business owners cannot dedicate the time it would take to accurately complete this monumental task by hand.

BUE offers a no-lose proposition: if they successfully facilitate a refund, they will invoice you at a rate of 50 percent of the recovered funds (this is a contingency fee - if nothing is recovered, you pay nothing!). An independent study recently found that over 40 percent of all utility bills have erroneous line items or overcharges; so, it is no wonder BUE has received over 50 requests and recovered over $800K in the past 3 weeks alone.

If your company would like to find out more information, BUE representatives can be contacted at 877-669-8243.

BUFFALO, NY, DECEMBER 14, 2011: Employees at BidURenergy, a Buffalo born company, have shifted focus this holiday season to highlight their community. The annual drive is in full swing at the company where donations of food and clothing for the Buffalo City Mission and Cornerstone Manor are piled in hallways and along rows of cubicles.

To date, employees at BidURenergy have donated over 1,800 pounds of food. Employees have also collected donations of pajamas to help keep the women and children of the Cornerstore Manor shelter warm this winter.

BidURenergy and parent company Energy Curtailment Specialists have a long standing relationship with the Buffalo City Mission. The donation drive is part of a companywide resolution to give back to the community.

BidURenergy is an energy supply consulting firm whose focus is to bring the lowest electricity and/or natural gas rates to its commercial and industrial clients.