DTE launches free energy conservation programs

metromode, 10/8/2009

Commercial energy efficiency is becoming a bigger and bigger cause these days in Metro Detroit.

DTE Energy is launching two programs to help local businesses curtail their energy usage. The first is through its subsidiary MichCon, which is offering 1,500 free programmable thermostats for local businesses, churches, and non-profits on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Such thermostats, already widely used in homes, allow for more efficient regulation of temperatures and thus energy consumption.

"Businesses are just like homes in a sense," says Scott Simons, a spokesman for DTE Energy. "Different measures can produce energy efficiencies."

For information, call (866) 796-0512 (Option 3) or send an e-mail to YourEnergySavings@kema.com or click here.

DTE Energy will also hold a series of free energy efficiency seminars in Metro Detroit for small- and medium-size companies. The idea is to increase energy conservation by teaching some simple solutions, like maintaining the building envelope or heating control systems.

Each seminar will run from 8-11 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 8 at the Engineering Society of Detroit's office in Southfield, 20700 Civic Center Drive, and Wednesday, October 14 at Macomb Community College's University Center Assembly Hall, 44575 Garfield in Clinton Township.

For information on the seminars, call (313) 235-1171 or click here.

Source: Scott Simons, a spokesman for DTE Energy
Writer: Jon Zemke

Southfield , Detroit