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Commercial Energy 2009 Client Appreciation Day
June 2009: Commercial Energy and their client guests took in the A's vs. Giants game on June 24, 2009.
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Commercial Energy 2008 Client Appreciation Day
May 2008: Commercial Energy and their client guests took in the Giants vs. Astros game on May 15th, 2008.
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Commercial Energy featured in U.S. News and World Report
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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CE Rolled out its new "GREEN" Product on August 18th at their 2007 Customer Appreciation Event
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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Green-E Certifies Commercial Energy's Renewable Energy Certificates
August 2007: The Center for Resource Solutions announced today that Commercial Energy's "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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MHA Member Hospitals saved over $5 Mil in 10 years
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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More than $31,000 donated to keep Boys & Girls Club open this summer
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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Ranck Oil, Commercial Energy will contribute to keeping Boys & Girls Club open
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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Rossmoor received another refund check from PG&E
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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Instead of paying PG&E for gas service, GRF got a onetime refund
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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Natural gas contracts shield businesses
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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Controlling Montana's energy future
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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Natural gas producer suggests tax credit
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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Electricity deregulation comes to Montana
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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Commercial Energy of Montana makes the INC 500 list for 2nd Year in a row
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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Inc500 Magazine Article on Managing Risk
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 report on Rail Energy
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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