Good news! Energy efficiency isn’t just for residential customers…there are lots of energy saving options for businesses of every size! Whether your business is small, medium, or large, PG&E has an abundance of free energy efficiency saving program options and tips to help save money.
Most businesses can benefit from energy audits, retrocommissioning, and automated benchmarking. At PG&E analyzing your energy use (a.k.a. Energy Audit) is FREE and can be done at any time online or simply by setting up an On Site Energy Audit (best for medium or large businesses) through our Business Customer Service Center by calling 1-800-468-4743.
Another method that PG&E offers is Retrocommissioning of your existing business equipment. Basically, Retrocommissioning is a process of identifying which piece(s) of equipment are not performing at its optimal level. Rather than replacing outdated equipment retrofitting makes the necessary repairs or upgrades to save energy and costs. The beauty of that is that it avoids having to purchase new equipment and instead makes use of what you already have and increasing the equipment’s efficiency. A great way to reap incentives and utilize free resources provided by PG&E to diagnose and estimate engineering costs. There are lots of incentives and rebates that PG&E has to offer.
Next up is Automated Benchmarking:
Benchmarking provides a way to establish an official starting point of energy usage, and as time goes on it provides a good way to track your usage historically and to see or analyze trends in energy usage based upon seasonal changes or changes in the way a business is operated. Once your business has its energy benchmark established your energy usage and data are automatically updated each month. Therefore you also save time since manual data entry of your energy consumption is not necessary. Another great perk!
For Large Business solutions most of options mentioned above are available however, PG&E provides incentives and programs that are industry specific. Please visit PG&E’s web site to select the industry that pertains to your business to find out more about how your business can start becoming more energy efficient.