Frontier Associates provides a variety of services to help commercial, industrial, and institutional energy users succeed in the new, or traditional, energy market:

• Load profiling, load aggregation analysis, and power procurement assistance
• Real-time pricing and other rate option evaluation
• Energy Efficiency Audits and Turnkey Project Management
• Customer bids into utility demand-side management programs

Frontier will determine which combination of price and consumption control strategies best meets your company's needs.

Power Procurement and Rates

Consumers in either a regulated or competitive energy market benefit from Frontier's expertise in retail pricing. Frontier achieves cost savings through its knowledge of regulatory procedures, retail providers, Independent System Operator guidelines, and gas-price trends. Before your contract expires, contact Frontier to: 1) Evaluate market prices, 2) Analyze electricity and gas market trends, 3) Structure a request for price proposals, 4) Contact, evaluate, and select your retail supplier, 5) Explain contract terms and conditions, and 6) Explore alternative deal structures.

With rising gas prices, billing errors may go unnoticed. If your regulated-rate energy bills seem out of line, contact Frontier to for a billing and operational practices audit. Billing errors are costly, but difficult to identify without expert assistance. Frontier's rate and engineering specialists review bill histories and utility tariffs to determine whether 1) the rate is correctly calculated, 2) the lowest-cost rate is in effect, and 3) load and usage changes can generate significant cost savings.

Frontier Associates helps commercial and industrial customers buy and use energy more effectively. Using Frontier's services, large steel companies, five star hotels, and high-rise office complexes have reduced energy costs through improved energy efficiency and through astute power procurement strategies. Our expert economists and engineers can show your business how to save energy - recent customers saved more than 30% of their annual energy costs. We can help you save too!

Energy Efficiency

Frontier provides engineering and project management services for commercial, industrial and municipal energy consumers. Our turnkey services include:

• Energy audits
• Engineering design
• Material and equipment procurement
• Project management

The right combination of advanced technologies, with tried-and-true engineering approaches, ensures rapid return on investment. For example, using Frontier specified motor drives and lighting retrofits, a five-star hotel is now saving over a quarter-million dollars per year with less than two-hundred thousand dollars investment. Another hotel in New England performed a Frontier designed chiller retrofit, saving tens of thousands of dollars per year in electricity costs. A Dallas office building is annually saving tens of thousands of dollars through Frontier-installed CO2 sensors for demand-controlled ventilation. Frontier Associates recently showed a municipality how to save over 30% of its annual energy costs.

Many utilities offer rebates for energy efficiency investments. Frontier Associates has helped clients across the United States receive millions of dollars for their equipment, lighting, window, and structural improvement investments.

ENERGY STAR® Certification

The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) ENERGY STAR® certification tells your customers that you care about energy efficiency and the environment. Frontier's efficiency projects have earned ENERGY STAR certification, and recognition that they are among the most efficient buildings in the US. Frontier verifies the building's physical characteristics, operating characteristics, energy consumption, thermal comfort, illumination levels, and indoor air pollutants. If warranted, Frontier implements cost effective improvements to earn certification.

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