Customers’ top energy
Newer natural gas equipment technologies are saving residential, commercial and industrial customers energy and dollars.
What can I do to create a more comfortable home with a reliable power supply? What natural gas equipment enhances competitiveness and profitability?
How can I improve my plant’s productivity?
How can I extend the outdoor dining season to improve my revenues?
esidential, commercial and industrial customer segments all have energy questions and challenges they are looking to their utilities to solve. The Energy Solutions Center (ESC) partners with utilities and equipment manufacturers to communicate to these end-users how today’s technological innovations in natural gas equipment can help them meet their needs.
Home, efficient Home
The economic downturn has offered ESC and its members an opportunity to re-assess equipment opportunities for the residential market and to enhance educational and communica18
november 2010 AmericAn GAs
tion efforts with homeowners, developers, builders and contractors. With more than 45 percent of households using natural gas to provide hot water, energyefficient water heaters are a primary component of our industry’s offerings for consumers. Consumers and homebuilders have many choices when looking at energy-efficient natural gas water heaters, including a number of gas water heaters that have earned the ENERGY STAR label. Recent engineering enhancements have focused on capturing more of the waste heat from gas water heaters and using it to increase overall efficiencies. New, high-efficiency gas water heaters use 10 percent to 40
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of American Gas - November 2010