February 2008
Commercial Energy has been featured in U.S. News and World Report in "Outlook Montana," which spotlights four Montana-based businesses.
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August 2007
Over 100 of our California clients and their families helped us celebrate Commercial Energy's 10th Anniversary (and 3rd year in California) .
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August 2007
The Center for Resource Solutions announced today that Commercial Energy's "Be Green" renewable energy certificate (REC) product is now Green-e
certified. Commercial Energy joins the network of renewable energy providers that offer products certified by Green-e, the nation's leading
certification and verification program for renewable energy.
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July 2007
Commercial Energy of Montana, based in Cut Bank, has just completed its first 10 years of supplying gas to the MHA Member Hospitals. Along the way, the MHA members have saved over $5 million dollars.
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May 2007
Cut Bank has come to the financial rescue of the Foothills Boys and Girls Club. In the past three weeks, more
than $31,000 has been raised to help keep the club open this summer, reported Virginia Villemez, Executive Director of the local
club.
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April 2007
Ron and Barbara Perry, owners of Commercial Energy of Montana, Inc. and Ranck Oil Company, read the article in the
Cut Bank Pioneer Press about the Foothills Boys and Girls Club having to close their doors this summer due to budget
constraints. They contacted Virginia Villemez, Executive Director of the Club, and shared their idea of challenging the
community to raise $8,000 by April 30-an amount they would gladly match.
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October 18, 2006
When GRF switched to Commercial Energy to save on its gas bill for the clubhouses, the energy company discovered
that Rossmoor had been billed the higher residential rate instead of the lower commercial rate for gas by PG&E. The
company asked PG&E to refund three years of overpayment, which is what the law allows.
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June 28, 2006
Switching gas companies that service Rossmoor's five clubhouses turned out to be more of a savings than expected. Earlier this month, the
Golden Rain Foundation received two checks totaling $40,758.98 from PG&E, its former gas supplier. The checks represented how much Rossmoor
overpaid the utility over a three-year period. GRF switched to Commercial Energy to save on the gas bill for Rossmoor's clubhouses. Officials
from the energy company discovered Rossmoor had been over billed by PG&E.
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February 4, 2006
For those who locked in rates before last fall's price run-up, it means cost savings. But security, not savings, is
the bigger reason to switch, said Ron Perry, of Commercial Energy, a Montana-based natural gas provider that expanded
its service to the Bay Area in 2004. "The way traditional utility billing works, you don't find out how much you have
to pay until it's way too late to do anything about it," Perry said. "With our program, you look forward and know what
your natural gas is going to cost."
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October 2005
Our President, Ron Perry, suggests to the Montana Governor that we can help lower home heating costs for all
Montanans this winter. At the Governor's Energy Conference in October he proposed that the state cap oil and
gas tax revenue at the 2005 level and refund the excess to consumers. As a net exporter of natural gas,
Montanans could save $100 Million if his proposal is adopted.
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October 2005
Natural gas marketer Ron Perry, of Cut Bank, has a solution for rising home heating costs in Montana
this winter: Pay a portion of state production taxes back to consumers. Perry, president of Commercial
Energy of Montana, proposed Tuesday that the state cap oil-and-gas severance tax revenue at the 2005
level and use any excess to give consumers a credit on high natural gas bills.
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September 2005
Ron Perry believed that allowing customers to migrate back to the default supplier
represents the free market in play. Perry, chief executive officer and president of Commercial Energy
of Cut Bank, Mont., recently notified clients he could come nowhere near to matching NorthWestern's
rates, and he watched 200 small- to medium-sized companies head back to the default supplier.
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2005
"The entrepreneurs you'll find on the Inc. 500 have the type of attitude we need to get this economy moving again,"
said Inc. editor-in-chief John Koten. "For them, a tough market is not an excuse for poor performance, but an
opportunity to innovate and rise above the competition."
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May 2003
Here was the proposal: A railroad in Montana wanted to take advantage of stratospheric electricity prices by generating
lower-cost energy from idle diesel locomotives. A power company, Commercial Energy of Montana, would put up $1 million --
half the cost of retrofitting the engines to produce power -- as well as handle sales and schedule transmission of that
power to customers. The power company's founder and CEO, Ron Perry, saw three potential gains: a 50% share in the
venture's profits, a deeper relationship with an important customer (the railroad), and a chance to try generating his
own power, a cornerstone of the company's long-term business plan. But Perry knew one other thing about the plan:
It was very risky.
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NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw and David Bloom examines the power
shortages in Montana, the impact on the local work force, and an inventive
solution that Commercial Energy helped develop: Use idle locomotives to
produce power. David Bloom discusses the benefits with Commercial Energy
CEO, Ron Perry in this video clip.
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