At Save Wave Energy we have created the most complete and dependable platform upon which end users can exercise the power of choice to save money when meeting all of their energy demands. Save Wave Energy, LLC. is a firm that can come into your business tomorrow and deliver a detailed energy efficiency and cost plan that will save you thousands on energy costs A MONTH.

Save Wave Energy has a three tiered approach to leveraging for your business the wonderful benefits the move to deregulation and consumer choice in Illinois affords you. Quite simply, Save Wave Energy helps you take advantage of the incredible capacity for positive change that comes with being able to implement the power to choose your energy supplier in a free market paradigm. We have also mastered the ability to obtain for you Federal Government subsidized retrofitting credits, in addition to providing you with cutting edge “Green Energy” products in order to create a comprehensive solution to lowering your business’ monthly energy expenditures. Using this system, Save Wave Energy has helped commercial entities in Illinois establish energy prices 10-15% lower through our fixed rate energy brokering,with further reductions in energy costs of an additional 10-15% through our energy engineering and efficient product architecture explained below.

Save Wave Energy TIER #1: Deregulation in Illinois

Under the new deregulated environment here in Illinois companies have the ability to choose their energy supplier. This deregulation has caused multibillion dollar energy firms to enter the US energy markets with competitive pricing that, when implemented, saves the end user/commercial businesses huge amounts on their monthly energy costs. In June 2010, every commercial entity in the State of Illinois will be subject to an hourly rate charge from ComEd. Commercial entities will have increased risk exposure to daily swings of the energy market, and therefore be subject to fluctuating prices with no defined idea of what their end of the month energy utilities will cost their business. We help your business by showing you how to lock in low rates now for the future, so that you don’t have to be exposed to this “excess commodity risk” that is coming as a result of policies on the part of local distribution companies like ComEd

Save Wave Energy Solution #1 - Competing Energy Bids

Save Wave Energy, LLC. seeks competitive bids from multiple energy providers for your business’ energy rate. The firm then analyzes the energy provider’s respective bids and brings back the best fixed rate pricing plan for your business’ individual situation. We will let you know where each major institution stood with their bids and allow you to pick the most cost effective program for your business. When energy companies compete, you win. And your trophy comes in the form oflower fixed rate prices upon which your business can depend.

Save Wave Energy TIER #2: Retrofitting of Energy Consuming Products

Save Wave Energy helps each business become aware of the innovative technologies that are allowing businesses like theirs to run more efficiently and cost effectively through automation and computers. What many do not realize  is that the same technology that causes them to upgrade their CPU’s every few years is also creating better, more cost effective utility-driven machines and fixtures. As an example, we have experienced situations where businesses with relatively new three year old buildings are  able to cut their energy consumption by 30% by using a new, more energy-efficient HVAC system.Your companies’ place of business needs to be on the cutting edge with the energy systems it uses, and Save Wave Energy, LLC. puts you there.

Save Wave Energy Solution #2 - LIME Energy, NASDAQ: (LIME)

Save Wave Energy has created a strategic partnership with Lime Energy, one of the nation’s leading firms in Energy Engineering and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certification. Lime Energy engineers, with the assistance of Save Wave Energy, work with our clients on a consultation basis to show how they can drastically reduce their energy costs by restructuring their utilities, building more energy efficient systems and retrofitting expired technologies with new ones.

Save Wave Energy TIER #3: Rightcycling - Energy Efficiency/Green Energy

Having products to replace aging technology is just as important as identifying the wasted energy of the overall systems themselves. Businesses can benefit tremendously by utilizing industry tested “green products” that can be used in everything from new construction of a hospital’s back up generator to energy efficient light bulbs for parking garages.  Identifying areas where existing products can be upgraded and energy efficiency improved is a detailed process that must be coordinated in order to realize the full benefit of what it means to rightcyle.

Save Wave Energy Solution #3: GEXPRO (formerly GE Supply)

Save Wave Energy sought a partnership with THE best Electrical Products supplier with a strong supply chain to support their mission to save businesses on their energy efficient supplies. By partnering with Gexpro, a company who has been around since 1904 and was formerly a major division of General Electric, Save Wave Energy immediately felt confident in our ability to promise  and deliver an elite level of service to new clients that are looking to lower their energy expenditures through Gexpro’s huge line of energy efficient products.

Save Wave Energy Provides the Entire Package for Maximum Energy Savings

While some firms, like ours, can offer an avenue to savings for your business by establishing strong strategic relationships with large energy firms who can refer a less costly energy rate, Save Wave Energy believes this is only one third of the way towards realizing a comprehensive  energy saving solution. With Save Wave Energy’s three tiered approach our clients can be assured that they will receive a streamlined path to much lower energy costs. Whether the client is a Chicago Skyscraper or a neighborhood coffee shop, Save Wave Energy is committed to becoming the nation’s most well respected Energy Consultant Firm, one business, one client, one state at a time.

Core Values Supporting Our Mission:

1. Belief in the integrity of individual choice within free markets to create long term stability in energy prices.

2. Empowering consumers to take charge of their energy use and save money when doing so by locking in the best rates now.

3. Understanding of the crucial role quality education plays in the institution of a sustainable and renewable green economy.

4. Desire to allow consumers to obtain the capability to reduce their carbon footprints through access to cutting edge green technologies and products.

5. Empowering commercial entities to take advantage of energy rebates and grants currently available

But there can be problems with this kind of fundraising. Doesn’t it send the wrong single when we teach children about childhood obesity but have them sell nutritionally bankrupt foods to people for money? Isn’t there a problem with teach kids about recycling (which we here at SaveWaveEnergy.com have taken a step further, with rightcycling) when they are selling wrapping paper that isn’t made from recyclables in order to raise needed funds?

Enter Greenraising.

Lisa Olson, the founder/inventor of the concept was seeking to combine eco-consciousness with responsible fundraising. So, she began seeking out environmentally friendly “green” products and trade goods like shopping bags, coffee and jewelry and aggregated them into a catalog. Which could then be distributed to schools and organizations for fundraising purposes. And given her background as a teacher, Ms. Olson began developing teachng materials and lesson plans that could be used in the classroom in conjunction with the fundraiser. To date, there are now over 1,000 groups in the US and Canada that participate in Greenraising.

As Lisa Olson says, “Schools are not only raising funds, they’re also raising awareness…tiny actions do add up.” And this is the real genius of the new paradigm for fundraising in schools. Children are learning to develop their ecological intelligence from a very young age. They are learning about the broader impact of their local choices, and how turning off running water or flipping the lightswitch off when they leave a room adds up when it comes to energy savings.

Greenraising is certainly a wonderful new way to practice being green and helping a valued nonprofit organization at the same time. And it is exactly the kind of innovative concept SaveWaveEnergy.com can get behind and fully support. So go out and Greenraise!

When people talk about energy independence in America, reducing our use of foreign oil, not being held hostage to price shocks in energy commodities and things of this ilk, nearly always the conversation focuses on the supply side. We need to build more wind farms a la T. Boone Pickens. We need to drill for more oil. We need to find more natural gas reserves. We need to kick ethanol production into high gear and start using biodiesel more frequently. We need to increase our refining capacity for oil so that more supply of the resource can enter into the pipeline. We need to invest billions and spent untold man hours developing the ability to deep sea drill for energy resources. On and on the conversation goes.

But rarely do we ever hear about the other side of economic equilibrium, the demand side. Reducing demand on a macrocosmic level with everyone doing their part on an individual basis is oftentimes overlooked in contemporary energy discussions. Reducing demand by increasing the efficiency of our collective energy usage is cost-effective, scalable, less time intensive and not nearly as environmentally destructive  as supply side solutions. The process, for example, of figuring out how to create more energy efficient lightbulbs, producing them and then getting them in homes nationwide doubtless carries with it a corresponding carbon footprint. However, the negative environmental impact of this increased carbon footprint is dwarfed by the reduction in total carbon output  that comes with billions of lightbulbs being installed in homes that run longer at higher levels of brightness and use less energy. The same kind of thing is not quite observed when it comes to building new coal plants to satisfy consumers’ energy demands.

Time ingeniously referred to all of this as the drive to save “negawatts” (reducing systemic demand by X amount of megawatts means that we experience negative megawatts demand growth, or negawatts) as opposed to producing more megawatts. In essence, there are two ways to do this: by using things more efficiently or by using things more productively. The former can be seen in the lightbulb example, with the latter’s exemplars evinced in such things as weatherizing our homes by caulking windows and doors and insulating pipes and ducts so that the home itself is using energy more productively. Either way, energy efficiency is not being overlooked anymore.

Barack Obama called efficiency “the cheapest, cleanest, fastest energy source.” And Steven Chu, his Energy Secretary, said to a crowd he was speaking to that “I cannot impress upon you how important energy efficiency is.” But, we can sure try.

America’s power plants waste enough energy to power all of Japan. Only 4% of the energy used to run a lightbulb is actually used for light. The rest is lost as the power travels over transmission lines and or is given off as heat at the plant and by the lightbulb itself. Our consumer electronics, the fastest growing segment of power demand, are incredibly inefficient. There are some gaming consoles that are shipped by manufacturers with the auto power-down disabled, burning up enough energy over the night after the user forgets to manually shut them off to be able to run two refrigerators. Little examples like this, writ large, are we waste such incredible amounts of energy.

Quite simply, this is neither acceptable nor right. But it is this way because of disincentives to change the status quo. Power companies make more money if they sell more power, so it is not in their interest to help reduce demand. This is a very powerful example of monetary disincentives on the supply side.  But they exist on the demand side as well. Most efficiency investments pay for themselves over a few years, but all of them require up front costs, which can seem daunting to finance. And top of the line efficient appliances can be extremely expensive. Truly, when people and business are living paycheck to paycheck and month to month, a few dollars up front can mean a world of difference. And there is the money donated by entities like the Big Three Automakers to politicians to try to keep fuel-efficiency standards lower. So there are political, as well as economic, disincentives to altering the system. Entrenched interest can be very hard to fight, especially when it is well heeled, with deep pockets.

However, in the long run, it is in ALL of our best interests to have a sustainable and renewable green economy and a healthy planet. And that ultimate logic wins the day. So, Obama and others are doing things to get rid of the current disincentives that are standing in the way of that ultimate goal. Having states legislate the decoupling of profits from sales volume for utilities, providing for a massive expansion of government assistance in paying for the poor’s cost to retrofit their houses with more efficient goods and machinery, mandating better and more efficient fuel and appliance standards, and the like, are all things that are currently in the hopper to build momentum towards becoming a much more energy-conscious nation.

So, this is akin to the next step. First, there is the development of ecological intelligence. And then comes putting that collective knowledge to use through concrete action, like making energy efficiency a national priority. It is true that energy efficiency alone will not save the world, nor rightcycle our economy out of its current doldrums. But, it sure can go a long way towards making our country stronger and our world healthier.

Rightcycling is most fundamentally about bringing a novel and contemporary approach to bear on ideating about the positive effects the green ethic has on our planet and our economy. Notionally, the term is to be thought of as kind of an amalgam of some common precepts. This is the essence of innovation, seeing old things in new ways and thinking of the past as prologue to a bright and wonderful future.

The ‘cycling’ part of “rightcycling” is meant to evoke an ethic of being efficient with our energy usage by playing off of the goal of recycling, which is all about the efficiency of materials usage. It hints at the ultimate meaning behind being ‘green’ in our ways of living, both on a micro and a macrocosmic basis, that is to say, both as an individual consumer and as a societal whole.

But, the term is more than just about being efficient with planetary resources, it’s about invoking Corporate Social Responsibility. CSR, as the term is abbreviated, is essentially a buzzword about companies and how they should exist as good corportate citizens, how they should act and make every decision on the basis of a three-pronged thesis: People, Planet, Profit. Like a three-legged, each part is necesary for a coherent and workable whole. No corporation should operate without taking into account all three, simulateously. And when it comes to the environment and acting sustainably, it is the duty of corportations, as part of their CSR due diligence, to make their carbon footprints smaller, their environmental impact more efficiently streamlined.

And then there is business cycle and everyone knows that we are sitting in an acutely painful trough, a rather pronounced ebb in the flow of the cycle. We can harken back to Adam Smith and his Invisible Hand, which he described like this:

“Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage indeed, and not that of society, which he has in view, but the study of his advantage naturally or rather necessarily leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to society.”

Being green confers economic advantage. It is most decidedly not in the best very long term interests of a business or nation-state to operate in such a way that they will cause the planet to cease to function properly. But, rightcycling is about more than that, it’s more about the here and now. About how making sustainable decisions today is economically sound. Business is all about efficiency and individuals today are more productive than ever before and being green only makes us all even moreso. With Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand, we see precisely how each person developing ecological intelligence, how each corporation acting in acting in a socially responsible manner is ultimately good for ALL of us. When the rightcycling ethic is implemented in this way, it provides an impetus for getting this economy out of the doldrums. Now, granted, acting sustainably for the long term is not going to get us out of our economic crises all by itself, that is so sure. But, it CAN help. Without sounding too cliche, every little bit DOES help.

Essentially, in sum, Rightcycling is about leveraging the economic power of green living in order to help “right” our economic course onto a more positive, upward sloping part of the “cycle,” in addition to encouraging consumers and business alike to also do their parts in being more efficient in their energy usage and adopting a more ecologically intelligent methodology of consumption.

The last idea that they featured on that list was the concept of ecological intelligence, and the how there is an ever increasing drive by the general populace to acquire it. Truly, we are in the midst of a new age, when it comes it comes to people understanding the utmost importance that is attached to building a renewable and sustainable economy. Most scientists agree that the current damage of human consumption, writ large, is not having a beneficial effect on the planet.

An excerpt from the article:

“Using a young science called industrial ecology, businesses and green activists alike are beginning to compile the environmental and biological impact of our every decision…That’s thinking ecologically — understanding the global environmental consequences of our local choices. “We can know the causes of what we’re doing, and we can know the impact of what we’re doing,” says Goleman, who wrote the 1995 best seller Emotional Intelligence. “It’s going to have a radical impact on the way we do business.”

At first glance this may not seem like much, but this is incredibly important. Our world economy is being remade right before our eyes. And it starts with you. And you. And all of us. It is the little things that add up. Like when I go to the supermarket and decide on which kind of rice I want to purchase or which wine I want to buy. Most of the time our choices are simply based off of taste, nutrition and price. We want to receive the most value for our dollar. We want the best tasting and most delicious meal for the lowest price. However, a new decision variable is being added to the mix: environmental impact. People are more and more deciding to buy the product that provides them with the most value, at the least cost to the enviroment.

Standards are being created on macro level so consumers can better compare products in this regard. Investigative journalism is making it known to the public which companies wantonly dump waste into rivers in the process of making their product. The green movement isn’t just about granolas trying to save a few trees anymore. It’s about people truly coming to understand how every decision they make, every product they purchase has some kind of deletirious effect on our planet. And on a macro basis, consumers as a whole, are “getting it.”

We are starting to buy from companies that are leaders in sustainable practices. We are shunning companies that seem not to give two hoots about the planet. We are buying more energy efficient products. We are getting meeting ever larger amounts of our energy demand from wind, water, solar and biological sources.

Adam Smith once wrote, “What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.” This is the reason that ecological intelligence is changing the world. Growing numbers of consumers are beginning to realize the environmental impact of their individual choices. As this few turns into a great multitude, the habits of entire countries begin to change, economies begin to rightcycle, and our world becomes a better place.