We just got word that the Community Energy Cooperative’s Energy Smart-Pricing Plan is a recipient of a 2006 Chicago Innovation Award. The awards were given to ten groups that over the last year have displayed outstanding innovation in products and services that not only inspire and educate others, but solve unmet consumer needs. The ESPP was selected amongst over 225 applicants.

For the past three years, the Energy Smart-Pricing Plan has helped save consumers money on their energy bills, reduce their power, and cut stress on the system as a whole. The voluntary pilot program has also paved way for a new law signed by Governor Blagojevich which in 2007 will give consumers the option of buying their electricity at hourly, market-based rates.

The Energy Smart-Pricing Plan is also proving to be a very timely program, now that we are confronted with ComEd’s energy rates in Illinois that are expected to go up by 22% next year. Through demonstration, ESPP has proven how giving consumers a choice about their energy rates can save them money while encouraging energy efficiency.

To read the article in the Sun-Times about the Energy Smart-Pricing Plan receiving a 2006 Chicago Innovation Award, go here.

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