Our knowledgeable staff will support your business by providing the necessary training and marketing materials as well as offering PowerConnect workshops at sales meetings and events.

Continuous Support Our user-friendly PowerConnect online portal allows you to remain in constant contact with our expert PowerConnect representatives to ensure all key personnel are up to speed on program updates. The direction of energy markets can change on a dime. We will keep your staff informed of important market updates and trends in the industry.

ECS’ PowerPay! Demand Response program allows companies and facilities to get paid $$$ to reduce their electric usage during electrical grid emergencies. During certain hours on certain days throughout the year, the utility companies cannot generate enough power to keep everyone that is on the grid up and running. When there is not enough electricity being supplied to end-users, widespread blackouts and even brownouts can occur, which can cause damage to equipment and heightens the risk of fires. Demand Response is absolutely crucial to the reliability of the electrical grid and participants are compensated with cash payments for their performance during these emergency hours. ECS tailors this PowerPay! program specifically for PowerConnect clients.

For the businesses who want to be smart about managing their energy costs, ECS offers the lowest electric and natural gas rates through its sister company, BidUrEnergy, and their PowerPit! platform, which is a free and no obligation service. PowerPit! forces third party suppliers to compete with each other as well as with the main utility companies. This competition drives rates lower in the favor of PowerConnect members. With more than 10,000 businesses already in its portfolio, BUE has the leverage to command the lowest possible rate margins. Failure to submit the lowest rate means that the supplier will not win the account, so PowerConnect members will always be guaranteed the absolute best pricing option. On average, businesses save 10-20% on their energy bills after participating in a PowerPit! auction and the PowerConnect partnership is putting those savings right into the hands of its members.

In addition to PowerPit! ECS offers another free service through BUE – bill auditing. Oftentimes, businesses trust that they are paying what they should for their energy costs, but more than 40% of all businesses have been billed incorrectly by their utility or supplier. In order to see if PowerConnect members have fallen victim to billing mistakes, BUE requires a 12-month history of bills and the answers to a few simple questions, which are entered into BUE’s proprietary software program. BUE then generates a report analyzing whether or not a company is being overcharged. Just recently, BUE’s analysts uncovered more than $800,000 in overcharges to Citifield, home of the New York Mets, and obtained those funds back from Con Edison on behalf of the customer. Referred PowerConnect members should take advantage of BUE’s bill audit in order to find out if they are being billed fairly and accurately or, if there is a mistake, they could be eligible for energy payment refunds from their supplier.

PowerConnect is a unique energy management program that will help you to expand the scope of your business. PowerConnect allows you to gain a solid foothold in the ever-expanding energy industry by offering award-winning services to your clients, without the required back-end resources and expense. When you become a PowerConnect partner, you can achieve a completely sizable and scalable extra source of revenue for your business while helping your clients to also greatly benefit through an optimized energy management strategy.

Once you join, a PowerConnect representative will work with you to develop a plan for outreach to your customers or prospective customers. If and when a customer signs up for a demand response program or the Discount Energy Network, you earn a sizable commission. It’s that simple!

PowerConnect makes possible a variety of free energy services for your clients including demand response, energy procurement, and bill audit solutions.

The PowerConnect program’s award-winning services are offered by North America’s leading privately-held demand response provider - Energy Curtailment Specialists, Inc., and the nation’s premier energy consulting firm - BidURenergy Inc.

Through PowerConnect, you have control over which services most closely align with your interests and the interests of your clients. The PowerConnect partnership will ensure that your clients are only offered services that benefit your business. PowerConnect includes a non-compete platform that will not conflict with any services that you already offer.

Through PowerConnect, a dedicated single point of contact is available to handle any questions or concerns from you or any of your referred clients. Our PowerConnect team understands how important your customers are to you and aims to realize a mutually beneficial relationship through PowerConnect for you and your clients. Your referred clients will always be handled with the utmost level of care. In fact, in the interest of our PowerConnect partners, you will always have the option to be included in any pertinent developments and correspondences involving your clients. The PowerConnect partnership retains a heavy focus on communication with our PowerConnect partners and you will ultimately determine your level of involvement.

How much you will be paid completely depends on your level of commitment when advocating the PowerConnect program as well as the amount of qualified clients that you refer in the program. The PowerConnect program allows for substantial new revenue streams for your business. There is no limit to how much you make through the PowerConnect program.

When and how you receive commission payments depends on the types of services that you choose to offer to your clients through PowerConnect. Your clients’ payments and yours for participation in demand response programs are based on the amount of kW reduction your client achieves during an emergency reduction event. For energy procurement services you will be compensated based off of your customer’s annual kWh usage. For bill auditing services you will be compensated based on the actual revenue from a refund received back on behalf of a client.

If you decide to offer Demand Response, your client’s initial negotiated payment will be based on the amount of kW they can reduce. Your actual commission payment as well as your clients’ payment is based on the amount of reduction (kW) and percentage of reduction performance that your client achieves after a demand response event or series of demand response events within a season.

If you choose to offer energy procurement to your clients, your commission will be based off of your client’s account size in terms of kilowatt hours. The higher their kWh usage, the more opportunity you have for financial compensation. You will be paid as soon as your client accepts a supplier through the PowerConnect Blind Bid auction platform.

For Bill Audit services, your commission is based on the agreed upon service level (basic, intermediate, or advanced). This percentage amount is then based on the actual revenue from the refund that ECS obtains back on behalf of your client from the utility company.