PECO Smart Returns - A Wise Investment
With Smart Returns, PECO business customers have the power to save money and energy on their own terms. Best of all, there is no cost to enroll.
It pays.
- Your company saves money for adjusting its energy use during periods of peak energy demand systemwide. Greater participation means greater savings!
It’s easy.
- Adjusting your company’s energy use can be as easy as dimming the lights and shutting down unused office equipment – simple steps that don’t normally affect productivity or safety.
It benefits everyone.
It benefits everyone.
- Your company reaps financial savings via credit(s) to your bill by adjusting its energy use.
- Your company helps the community by reducing energy use which in turn stabilizes the power grid.
Smart Returns – Two Ways to Achieve Energy and Cost Savings.
Whether your company participates in one or both Smart Returns programs, your company can reap financial benefits by agreeing to reduce energy use when community demand is high, especially during the summer months.
PECO notifies participants in advance of each request to reduce energy for a duration that never lasts more than six hours. PECO guides your company’s participation to help it achieve maximum energy savings with no effect to the quality and safety of your business.
To start saving, simply enroll in one or more Smart Returns programs for one year from June 1 to May 31 and receive guaranteed savings (mandatory program) or flexible savings (voluntary program).
Consider these Smart Returns programs:
Mandatory program (also called Interruptible Load for Reliability – ILR) offers more, guaranteed savings for a preset level of participation.
- Your company agrees in advance to reduce its energy use by a guaranteed amount, during periods of systemwide, power-grid emergencies. Even if PECO never asks your company to reduce its energy use; your company still receives the same financial savings.
Voluntary program (also called Voluntary Load Reduction - VLR) offers flexible participation with fewer savings.
- During periods of high wholesale energy market prices, your company receives savings by voluntarily reducing its energy by any amount when requested by PECO. When demand for energy is high, prices go up. When your company reduces its energy use, it frees up energy that can be sold to others in the wholesale energy market. PECO passes along a share of its financial gain to voluntary program participants.
When you enroll in Smart Returns, PECO will provide your company with guidelines, ideas and tools (such as e-VALUATOR, PECO’s online energy analysis service) for ways to participate to maximize its savings.
Start Saving Today – Call Your PECO Account Manager or call toll free 866-850-0357
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