Xcel hopes contest nets efficiency

Xcel Energy wants feedback from business, and it’s launching a sweepstakes to get it.

All businesses face operational challenges that can have big effects on the bottom line, especially in terms of energy use. Xcel’s energy pros want to know more about those challenges and how they can provide resources for business customers to help them kick-start efficiency.

Xcel’s business customers in Colorado have the opportunity to share their energy challenge or ask an energy-related question in The Business Customer Challenge Facebook sweepstakes. In coming weeks, Xcel energy experts will be answering the energy questions submitted on its Facebook page.

Questions received so far by Xcel cover topics as simple as choosing the right light bulbs and as complex as distributing heat in a building.

Each energy-related question about business operations counts as a sweepstakes entry.
Entrants will have a chance to win a free on-site assessment for their businesses’ energy use. The energy assessment, valued at $1,800, will help identify ways to save energy and ensure that business customers make smart investments and upgrades for the future.

The assessment includes a walk-through of the winner’s facility to identify specific energy-efficiency solutions that are most effective for the business, an analysis of the company’s utility bills and an “action plan” to create a more efficient facility.

Following the assessment, the winner also will be eligible for an additional 30 percent rebate for implementing the measures identified in the assessment.
The sweepstakes ends Jan. 31.

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