PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

• Overview
• Reduce, Renew, Balance
• Verified Emission Reductions (Carbon Offsets)
• Renewable Energy Certificates
• Utility Partnerships
• The Case for Offering a Green Program
• Why Market With a Partner
• Utility Partners
• Marketing Your Commitment
• Strategic Regulatory Guidance

Utility Partnerships

3Degrees works in partnership with utilities to offer residential and business customers a voluntary renewable energy option, often referred to as a “Utility Green Pricing Program”. The programs supported by 3Degrees are always offered through the utility's brand.

The Santa Clara Green Power program is a fantastic success under our partnership with 3Degrees - we're ranked in NREL's Top 10 list, receive national awards from the U.S. Department of Energy and the EPA, garner local and regional recognition as an environmentally proactive utility, and most importantly our customers love it. We couldn't do it without the 3Degrees team and their expertise in reaching across all customer segments with a product that works.

—Larry Owens Division Manager, Customer Services at Silicon Valley Power

The 3Degrees’ Utility Partnership Team can provide a range of services:

• Turnkey Product Support: 3Degrees works closely with utility partners to design, deploy and provide ongoing marketing support in addition to providing high a quality supply of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) or Carbon Offsets. The result is a true partnership: 3Degrees experience marketing renewable energy is matched with the utility’s knowledge of its customers and its well established relationship with them.
• Supply-Only: 3Degrees will contract to provide Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) and/or Carbon Offsets on demand, as needed by the utility.
• Marketing Support: 3Degrees can provide marketing-only services for a utility’s renewable energy program. These services range from day-to-day marketing support, to onsite trainings, collateral templates, and a full-service creative department.

The 3Degrees Difference

3Degrees’ five turnkey utility partnerships are varied – they include programs operating less than one year and longer than seven years; there are investor owned and municipal utilities; rural and urban service territories, large and small utilities operating in different regions of the country. Our average participation rate across this diverse set of partnerships and demographics is 7.5%, more than 4 times the national average for green pricing programs.