NWP Services Corporation Announces Partnership with ENERGY STAR®

June 6, 2011 - PRLog -- NWP Services Corporation (NWP), a leading provider of financial transaction processing solutions for the multifamily housing industry, announced today the company has become an ENERGY STAR Partner. Through its voluntary partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ENERGY STAR, NWP helps customers to improve the energy efficiency of their multifamily communities, improve financial performance and help preserve the environment for future generations.

"We are pleased to be an ENERGY STAR partner,” said Jim Charles, senior vice president of product management and engineering for NWP. "Customers who utilize our UtilitySmart Business Intelligence and Benchmarking Analytics product, can now choose to take advantage of a robust and seamless integration with EPA’s Portfolio Manager, to automatically submit comprehensive utility consumption data to benchmark their communities’ performance and comply with local and state regulations where applicable,” added Charles.  Portfolio Manager is an online tool allowing real estate owners and operators to track energy and water consumption for both individual communities or across their portfolios. This tool can help establish baseline levels of consumption and track progress as improvements are made to lower energy usage and operating costs.

As an added benefit, UtilitySmart’s Business Intelligence and Benchmarking Analytics customers receive unparalleled access to valuable benchmarking data leveraging NWP’s nationwide database from which to measure performance against.

Charles observed, “One of the major challenges the industry has been facing has been the labor intensive task of entering meter level consumption information into the EPA’s Portfolio Manager. With UtilitySmart, the entire process is automated daily and information in Portfolio Manager is current each night. With New York City requiring most communities with over 50,000 sq. ft. to benchmark in Portfolio Manager by August 1, 2011 and Seattle requiring most multifamily communities to benchmark with Portfolio Manager or similar by April 1, 2012, failure to benchmark may result in violations on a quarterly basis and an additional penalty per violation. Now is the time to get started with a strategy to comply,” he added.


As an ENERGY STAR Partner, NWP Services Corporation will:

• Provide customers with an automated integration to ENERGY STAR’s Portfolio Manager

• Measure and track the energy performance of our customer’s communities where possible by using tools such as those offered through ENERGY STAR

• Develop and implement a plan consistent with the ENERGY STAR Energy Management Guidelines to achieve energy savings

• Help spread the word about the importance of energy efficiency to our staff and customers and the multifamily housing industry

• Support the ENERGY STAR Challenge, a national call-to-action to help improve energy efficiency

“Improving the energy efficiency of our nation’s buildings is critical to protecting our environment,” said Jean Lupinacci, Chief of the ENERGY STAR Commercial & Industrial Branch. “From the boiler room to the board room, ENERGY STAR partners are leading the way by making the buildings where we live, work, play and learn more efficient.”

To learn more about NWP’s award-winning utility management solution, UtilitySmart, or the EPA’s ENERGY STAR Partner program email us at multifamily@nwpsc.com.

About ENERGY STAR: ENERGY STAR was introduced by EPA in 1992 as a voluntary, market-based partnership to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency. Today, the ENERGY STAR label can be found on more than 60 different kinds of products as well as new homes and commercial and industrial buildings that meet strict energy-efficiency specifications set by the EPA. Last year alone, Americans, with the help of ENERGY STAR, saved $18 billion on their energy bills while reducing the greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those of 34 million vehicles. For more information about the ENERGY STAR program for commercial buildings:  www.energystar.gov/buildings

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NWP provides financial transaction processing services for the multifamily industry. NWP is a recognized leader in service quality for resident billing, resident payment processing and utility management services.