The interns will be working on a range of projects that involve marketing strategy, new business development, social media, renewable energy education, renewable energy certificates, e-mail marketing, video marketing, and business management.

Interns will be based in our Bethesda, MD office but will be asked to participate in networking events from Downtown DC to Baltimore, MD. This is a non-paying internship with potential full time paid opportunity beginning in June 2012. If you know of someone interested in working with Electric Advisors, Inc please have them send an e-mail to info@electricadvisors.com

www.energycentral.com/generationstorage/wind/news/en/22502335/Wind-farm-opposition-group-hopes-to-educate-public

For Earth Day and Earth Day month, we’re having a Get Green for FREE special promotion. When you choose to switch during the month of April, we’ll automatically upgrade the amount of locally produced wind power your buy for one year.

It’s simple: Buy 5 and get 10%; or buy 50% and get 100%! This offer is good from today until April 30, 2011. We have a special page set up for you to get more information and pricing, and to sign up.

We’re making this offer to our customer base in Maryland, the District of Columbia (DC) and Pennsylvania who are customers of Pepco, BGE, Allegheny Power (MD), Delmarva Power (MD) and PPL Electric, through our residential supplier, Washington Gas Energy Services (WGES). Here’s part of their announcement about this special offer:

Through April 30, 2011, Washington Gas Energy Services, Inc. (WGES), a leading mid-Atlantic energy supplier, will offer free incentives to customers … to purchase green energy products and help improve the air and water quality in the mid-Atlantic region. …

“WGES has long been an energy innovator and our Get Green For Free promotion is our way of rewarding customers who do their part to create a greener Earth,” says Harry Warren, president of WGES. “This promotion is about reminding customers that they have the right to shop for energy and choose their gas and electricity suppliers – and with WGES [and EA] they also have a green choice. Signing up for our special Get Green For Free offers any time through April 30, 2011 allows you to buy a greener energy product with a free incentive and improve the environment.”

WGES CleanSteps℠ WindPower

WGES CleanSteps℠ WindPower is clean, renewable electricity sourced from regional wind farms. Wind power, the world’s fastest-growing energy resource, reduces carbon dioxide and your carbon footprint and helps eliminate air pollution that causes smog and acid rain.

All WGES electricity offers include wind power as a small percentage of the electricity supply. …

About Washington Gas Energy Services

Washington Gas Energy Services, Inc. is one of the largest competitive providers of electricity and natural gas in the mid-Atlantic region and supplies over 335,000 customers.

... not so much.

It’s a bit funny, and yet kind of sad at the same time.

When we’re out and about, describing how we can lower electricity rates and fix natural-gas rates for both residential and commercial bills, a lot of people say:

Oh, good! We can now get rid of Pepco / BGE / (insert name of hated utility here)!

That sentiment is especially felt in the aftermath of bad storms; like our most current one this week, when hundreds of thousands of people lose power and really trash-talk the utilities.

Well … we don’t actually “take over” for Pepco, BGE, and so on. Here’s why:

Certain states have deregulated the energy markets, which means the supply of electricity and natural gas is now open to competition in those states. There’s a difference, though, between “supply” and “distribution” (also called “delivery”).

It doesn’t matter if you live in a regulated or deregulated state: The utilities still distribute/deliver your energy. With electricity, for example, the utility will always take the power off of the grid and use its power lines, substations, etc., to deliver the energy to your house or place of business.

That’s a bit of an oversimplification of the actual distribution process, but that is in essence why we don’t “take over” for the Pepcos of the world. The utilities will always deliver energy supplies to your home or business.

Another way to show what we do and don’t cover is on an actual bill. Here’s a document (.pdf) we use that describes the areas of the bill we do and don’t affect. While the bill shown is a residential bill, the same ideas apply to commercial bills, too.

Our specific example is of a Pepco bill, which is split into three sections: Distribution, Generation and Transmission. Because of deregulation in the states we serve (see below for details), we can lower your rates in the Generation and Transmission sections.

The Distribution section, though, is where and how Pepco (and other utilities) pay for maintaining lines, taking your customer service calls, and fixing lines during power outages. Because EA is not an actual utility, we’ll never touch that part of the bill.

Other utilities—BGE, for example—only have two sections … usually called something like Supply and Distribution. The Supply section essentially combines the Generation and Transmission sections into one.

If you take one thing away from this post, remember that there’s always an area of the bill that we do not touch, because the utilities need to pay for the services they provide.

You can start the process to lower your rates here if you have a residential bill, or here if you have a commercial bill. And keep in mind we handle both electricity and natural gas.

Electric Advisors: Lowering electricity & natural gas rates for residential customers in Maryland, DC and Pennsylvania (electricity only in Delaware; gas only in Virginia). Customers of BGE, Pepco, Washington Gas, Allegheny, Delmarva Power and PPL can lower their rates … today!

EA’s currently serves commercial customers in DC, Maryland and Pennsylvania, with more deregulated states on the way.

The Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) is pitching in $100 towards the cost of a home-energy audit, and is also rebating a decent chunk of change towards specific improvements.

The rebates are for 35% of the total cost of the improvement. The MEA is rebating up to $1,500 total for each category, which are:

• Whole-house air sealing
• Attic insulation
• Duct sealing, replacement or insulation
• Wall insulation
• Crawl-space or basement insulation
• Rim-joist insulation

Combining the maximum dollar rebate amount of these categories with the $100 rebate on the audit, and Marylanders can save as much as $3100 towards improving their home-energy efficiency.

Here’s where you find out more about the application process (State of MD Website). You can hire a home-energy auditor to tell you what you need to do, and then a home-performance contractor to complete the upgrades.

For those who cannot immediately afford the upgrades, the MEA and the Maryland Clean Energy Center are offering unsecured home energy-improvement loans for up to $20,000 at 6.99% interest.

Combine all of these efficiency-related savings with our lower rates for residential electricity and natural-gas supplies, and you can really put a dent in your future home-energy costs.

Electric Advisors is in the process of forming relationships with energy auditors and contractors who can help you with this type of work, and with qualifying for the rebates.

While we’ll post our new partners as they become available, please feel free to contact us if you have any questions, or need an immediate referral.

You can also subscribe to our upcoming newsletter, where we’ll highlight our new partners.

In the near future, we’re going to have all kinds of educational and informational videos about energy choice, how you can take advantage of energy choice to lower your energy-supply rates, and other utility-related topics.

Meantime, we produced a short, TV commercial-style promotional spot about EA and our services. If you’re not already seeing the YouTube video window below, click the jump to see it. If you can watch it in HD, all the better!

To see it in HD, you’ll have to click over to our YouTube Channel. If HD isn’t that important, or if you can’t watch HD on your computer, here’s the standard version of the video, which looks pretty darn good:

You can go to our YouTube Channel to see more videos as they’re finished. We’ll also have them up at other video sites, including sites that feature instructional and educational videos.

We’ll put our videos up here at our blog, too, as well as our social-media outposts on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. You’ll also see them in other pages throughout the EA Website.

As they say in the television world … Stay tuned!

We’re in the process of beefing up our social-media presence on both Twitter and Facebook. Please use the links to follow us at either of those places (or both). We promise not to be all over-promotional … we’ll provide timely news and information on many utility and cost cutting-related issues that can directly help the bottom line of your business or home.

Additionally, we’re going to be starting an email newsletter for our current commercial and residential customers. The email will be full of news and information on how you can cut your energy bills even further, and even go green with your energy usage.

If you’re not a customer but you want to receive the newsletter, we’ll provide a sign-up form here at the site. Hopefully our newsletter will then convince you to become a client of EA.

You’re going to be seeing us and our distinctive logo throughout the mid-Atlantic as well, as we start up more initiatives that will lower and/or fix the energy supply rates for commercial and residential utility-bill payers alike.

We’ve got several other things going on,too, and we’ll be rolling out all of that over the next several months. While we can’t say what’s going on right now, we can tell you that everything we’re planning will benefit you, the residential or commercial energy user.

We hate using clichés here, but it’s true this time: Stay tuned!