NorthWestern Energy Receives Exemplary Program Award from ACEEE for Energy Efficiency Programs

NorthWestern Energy’s Efficiency Plus (E+) Business Partners program has been recognized by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), a nonprofit research group based in Washington, D.C., as an "exemplary program." This recognition is part of a national awards program to honor America’s leading energy efficiency programs.

The E+ Business Partners provides custom incentives for energy efficiency to qualifying business, industrial, and irrigation customers. While the utility has offered the program for more than 20 years, it is the addition of two new approaches since 2006 that caught the attention of ACEEE. NorthWestern has contracts with five engineering and efficiency organizations to work with customers to complete cost-effective energy efficiency projects and pays the contractor based upon the energy savings of the projects they deliver. If the contractors, called E+ Program Contractors, do not deliver energy saving customer projects, they do not get paid by NorthWestern Energy. Separately, NorthWestern contracts for marketing and outreach support to exclusively encourage customer participation and to support the E+ Program Contractors.

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