Baltimore
Gas and Electric Company (BGE) today announced that through the BGE
Smart Energy Savers Program, BGE customers have achieved $2 billion
in energy savings over the lifecycle of the energy efficiency measures
installed. These annual savings make a substantial impact on the
environment and the savings equate to the amount of energy needed to
power more than 165,000 homes per year. The BGE
Smart Energy Savers Program, a suite of offerings intended to
help customers reduce energy usage and demand in support of EmPOWER
Maryland’s goal of a 15 percent per capita reduction in energy
consumption by 2015, and the smart meter enabled BGE Smart Energy Rewards®
and Smart Energy Manager® programs, have allowed
participating BGE customers to save nearly 1.8 billion kilowatt hours
(kWh) a year. Participants in these programs have received more than
$380 million in incentives for their efforts to create more energy
efficient homes and businesses throughout central Maryland.
BGE Chief Executive Officer Calvin G. Butler Jr. and Alex Laskey, President of Opower, congratulate BGE customer Brendan Foster for he and his family's commitment to energy efficiency. At the event, a joint press conference with Governor Martin O'Malley and representatives from Opower and BGE, Butler recognized all BGE customers for their commitment to energy efficiency and applauded customers on their significant energy savings milestone achievement of more than 18 billion kilowatt hours saved. The event was held at the Living Classroom's Frederick Douglas - Isaac Myers Maritime Museum in Baltimore City. (Photo: Business Wire)
In celebration of this significant energy savings achievement, BGE
participated in an event today at the Living Classroom’s Frederick
Douglas – Isaac Myers Maritime Museum in Baltimore City to congratulate
all BGE customers on their commitment to energy efficiency and support
of the BGE Smart Energy Savers Program and the BGE Smart Energy Rewards
and Smart Energy Manager programs.
“Working together with BGE, our customers have achieved this tremendous
milestone by strongly supporting the BGE
Smart Energy Savers Program, which is intended to help customers
manage and decrease energy use, which may ultimately help reduce their
energy bills and impact on the environment,” said Calvin G. Butler Jr.,
BGE’s chief executive officer. “BGE aims to empower our customers to be
smart energy managers by providing important information and innovative
programs and tools to help them make smart decisions about their energy
consumption in their homes and businesses. The success of these programs
is dependent upon increasing customer participation and BGE is proud to
work with our customers to reach this impressive energy savings
milestone. By achieving a savings of nearly 1.8 billion kWh a year, our
customers are proving that they are committed to working with us in
keeping Maryland clean, green and reliable.”
BGE thanks its customers for participating in the many components of the
BGE Smart Energy Savers Program, which has achieved a number of
accomplishments including saving customers money on their bills, helping
to reduce electric demand and ensuring the reliability of the electric
grid.
The BGE
Smart Energy Savers Program is a suite of programs that
enable all customers to control energy use, leading to more efficient
use of electricity and lowering energy bills from where they otherwise
would be. Collectively, the programs help contain the cost of energy and
improve reliability. The programs also help to reduce peak demand and
slow the growth in energy consumption to lessen the need for more power
plants.
BGE offers a variety of energy saving solutions for renters, homeowners,
large and small business customers, non-profits and institutional
customers, including rebates and discounts such as on Home Performance
with ENERGY STAR® to improve the efficiency of a home and energy
efficient lighting and appliances. To date, more than 18 million energy
efficient lighting measures discounted under the BGE Smart Energy Savers
Program have been purchased by customers throughout central Maryland.
The program also includes the BGE Smart Energy Rewards and
BGE Smart Energy Manager programs, supported by cloud software provider
Opower. The BGE Smart Energy Rewards program is a voluntary program
designed to encourage customers to use less electricity during summer
peak hours, when energy demand is high. BGE customers with a smart
meter, regardless of their electricity supplier, are eligible to
participate in the program. These programs provide customers with
targeted, personalized information about their energy consumption,
empowering customers to take action to reduce energy usage and save
money on their monthly bills.
The BGE Smart Energy Rewards program provides bill credits to
residential customers who reduce their electricity usage below their
typical usage during Energy Savings Days. Since inception, more than
660,000 customers have earned credits by participating in Energy Savings
Days.
In addition to these residential programs, BGE has installed 1.5 million
energy efficient measures to more than 17,000 business participants,
over half of which are small businesses.
The BGE Smart Energy Savers Program supports the EmPOWER Maryland Energy
Efficiency Act’s goal of reducing both per capita energy consumption and
per capita peak demand by 15 percent by the end of 2015. For more
information, visit bgesmartenergy.com.
About BGE
BGE,
headquartered in Baltimore, is Maryland’s largest gas and electric
utility, delivering power to more than 1.2 million electric customers
and more than 655,000 natural gas customers in central Maryland. The
company’s approximately 3,400 employees are committed to the safe and
reliable delivery of gas and electricity, as well as enhanced energy
management, conservation, environmental stewardship and community
assistance. BGE is a subsidiary of Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC), the
nation’s leading competitive energy provider, with 2013 revenues of
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