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Touchstone Energy® is a national alliance of local, consumer-owned electric cooperatives providing high standards of service to customers large and small. Our vision is to build a unifying brand that enhances electric cooperatives' greatest competitive advantage: our unique relationships with customers. Touchstone Energy® provides products, services and programs for the use by all members.
Select from the categories below for more detail on each Touchstone Energy® Program
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The "Together We Save" campaign was developed by and for the Touchstone Energy® Cooperatives as part of a national comprehensive communication program. The campaign is designed to drive people to an interactive website full of information and helpful resources.
Touchstone Energy® Home Program
The Touchstone Energy® Home Program is a locally focused and implemented initiative that assists cooperatives in working with their members to ensure that their homes meet nationally recognized energy efficiency criteria. The program standards that apply to new and existing homes have been recently updated. Meeting these criteria helps members manage their energy use.
Touchstone Energy® Savers.com
Touchstone Energy® Savers.com web site is your one stop connection to access a set of online tools, information and resources that point the way to a more energy-efficient home. As the cost of energy goes ups, consumers are looking for ways to manage their energy use and reduce costs. This site is designed to create greater home comfort and promote energy efficiency.
Energy Savings Home Tour
Take a Virtual House Tour of a typical home for room-by-room steps to energy efficiency.
Water Heater Energy Savers
Water Heater Energy Saver is a fun application that features a "fight" between two water heaters. The ultimate winner is the more energy-efficient water heater. This interactive application is designed to help you learn the benefits of energy-efficient electric water heaters by providing facts, tips and resources.
Light Bulb Energy Saver
On the Light Bulb Energy Saver site, you can enter the number of light bulbs in your home, click "calculate" and within seconds, animated "bags of gold" appear, representing the amount of money you can save by switching from standard incandescent light bulbs to compact fluorescent light bulbs.
Online Home Energy Audit
The Home Energy Audit is a robust online energy audit that identifies the best ways for consumers to manage their home energy use. This resource quickly calculates energy consumption based on a detailed description of a home, its appliances and geographic location. Because users can choose to answer as few as 19 questions, or can input every facet of their home's energy use, this tool is designed for every level of user.
Home Energy Savings Guide
The Home Energy Savings Guide is a popular resource for consumers to gather valuable tips to manage energy consumption by evaluating their homes and taking simple steps to trim unnecessary energy use. Click here to see full brochure.
101 Low-Cost/No-Cost Home Energy-Savings Measures
101 Low-Cost/No-Cost Home Energy-Saving Measures is a new brochure that details dozens of free or inexpensive ways co-op members can save energy at home. From water heating to laundry to heating and air conditioning, this resource explains how to save on energy bills with simple modifications to the use of appliances, electronics and lighting. For complete brochure click here.
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The Co-op Connections Program is a member benefit card that offers product and service discounts at participating retail businesses. As an added program benefit, members can visit www.connections.coop to access over 70 premier national discount deals which includes savings on everything from hotels, rental cars, flowers to outdoor apparel. A new partnership with New Benefits, a nationally recognized provider of non-insured health benefits, allows card holders to save money on prescription drugs at over 55,000 pharmacy locations nationwide.
SitesAcross America.com
SitesAcrossAmerica.com is a Web-based site selection clearinghouse designed to help electric cooperatives market thousands of available properties, buildings and sites in cooperative communities. It provides companies looking to expand with important information to make their decision to locate in cooperative territory an easy one. Hundreds of properties listed on this site have been sold or leased. New features include a Premium Sites feature, which enables users to narrow their search to sites that are ready for construction, and aerial images of properties powered by Google Maps.
Business Energy Advisor
Business Energy Advisor (BEA) offers business customers the latest market developments. BEA provides information on energy-related products and services in multiple areas including HVAC, lighting, motors, distributed generation, controls equipment, building insulation and more. Business customers will also find thousands of rebates and incentives, sector reports, customer relationship tools and technology assessments.
Commercial Energy Savings Guide
The Commercial Energy Saving Guide can go a long way toward educating business customers on ways to manage energy use in an easy-to-read brochure. Tips include advice on monitoring HVAC systems, efficient water heating and ensuring proper ventilation at facilities. Click here to view this guide on our library.
Energy Manager Resources
Touchstone Energy® Cooperatives have teamed up with E Source, the nation's premier energy technology group, to give you special access to an array of technology briefs and quarterly reports designed to help commercial energy users to get the most from your energy dollars.
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Touchstone Energy® Kids Zone is a great place for children to have hours of fun learning about electricity, electrical safety, renewable energy and energy efficiency and how to help their family create a more energy efficient home. Kids will also meet CFL Charlie, Touchstone Energy's energy efficiency mascot, who will lead them through the site with tons of games, videos and surprises.
Get Charged!
Get Charged! Program is an exclusive partnership by Touchstone Energy® Cooperatives and Discovery Education to provide high-quality educational materials about electricity and the rich history of cooperatives to middle/junior high schools across the country.
Super Energy Saver Classroom Featuring CFL Charlie
CFL Charlie takes his energy efficiency message from the online Kids Zone into classrooms with the new "Super Energy Saver" classroom kits. The lessons and activities for grades K-5 are packed with materials that include web-based lessons, web activities and games, and printed materials that will teach kids how to become "Super Energy Savers" at home.
Power & Hope Employee Recognition Program
The Power & Hope Employee Recognition Program gives co-ops a way to identify employees who have gone above and beyond to help others when major challenges arise. This program is administered by the individual Touchstone Energy® cooperatives. It is at the co-op management's discretion to decide when and how an employee has provided power and hope within the cooperative network.
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