HOUSTON, July 10, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Centrica plc,
parent company of Direct Energy®, one of North America's largest retail providers of
electricity, natural gas, and home and business energy-related
services, today announced Direct Energy Business has been selected
as a Financial Ally with the Department of Energy's (DoE) Better
Business Initiative, established to help public and private
organizations find financing for energy efficiency and renewable
projects.
Working in partnership with Centrica's Distributed Energy &
Power business, Direct Energy Business offers businesses and other
large energy users the latest distributed energy solutions,
designed to help customers manage energy costs, boost site
resilience and reduce carbon emissions.
"Our vision is to deliver comprehensive energy solutions that
will help customers turn energy from a cost into a source of
sustainable competitive advantage," said Todd Sandford, Centrica Senior Vice
President of North America Distributed Energy. "We're proud to
provide customers with end-to-end services – from insight to
optimization and solutions – delivering the right energy solution,
to the right place, in the right way, to power business
advantage. These solutions can be delivered as part of a
tailored finance package through the Better Buildings
Initiative."
Direct Energy Business and ENER-G Rudox, a leading supplier of
onsite power and energy solutions acquired by Centrica's
Distributed Energy & Power business in 2016, will now be
featured on the DoE Financial Navigator online search tool. The
site launched in January this year to help businesses explore a
wide array of financing choices and identify relevant financing
options for their energy efficiency projects. Other notable
Financial Allies include Bank of America, Citi, PACE financiers,
Green Banks, innovative finance startups and think-tank
coalitions.
To find out more, please visit:
https://betterbuildingssolutioncenter.energy.gov/partners/direct-energy-business.
About Direct Energy
Direct Energy is one of
North America's largest retail
providers of electricity, natural gas, and home and business
energy-related services with over four million customers. Direct
Energy gives customers choice, simplicity, and innovation where
energy, data, and technology meet. A subsidiary of Centrica plc
(LSE: CNA), an international energy and services company, Direct
Energy, its subsidiaries and/or affiliates, operate in 50 U.S.
states plus the District of
Columbia and 4 provinces in Canada. To learn more about Direct Energy,
please visit www.directenergy.com.
About Centrica plc
Centrica plc is an international
energy and services company. Our purpose is to provide energy and
services to satisfy the changing needs of our customers.
We've been serving customers for over 200 years and aim to be at
the centre of their daily lives - central to helping them run their
world.
Our two global divisions, Centrica Consumer and Centrica
Business, supply energy and energy-related services to over 27
million customer accounts in the UK, Ireland and North
America, through strong brands such as British Gas, Direct
Energy and Bord Gáis Energy. They do this with the support of
12,000 engineers and technicians.
We're also developing new and innovative products, offers and
services for customers through our five growth businesses: Energy
Supply, Services, Connected Home, Distributed Energy & Power
(DE&P), and Energy Marketing & Trading. Our Connected Home
business has developed the Hive product range, including the smart
thermostat, which allows customers to control their energy usage
from their phone, while DE&P offers integrated energy solutions
for commercial and industrial customers, providing customers with
end-to-end services – from insight to optimisation and
solutions.
Innovation underpins everything we do, which is why we're
investing £100m in Centrica Innovations, a new venture to identify,
incubate and accelerate new technologies and innovations that can
help provide the right offers, products and services for our
customers.
We are also targeting active management of the most attractive
Exploration & Production developments in our portfolio,
reducing scale to between 40–50mmboe of gas and oil per annum, with
a focus on the UK, Netherlands and
Norway.
For more information visit: www.centrica.com.
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