Durham, N.C., January 13, 2004--Businesses across the country are realizing energy bill savings by installing onsite or "distributed" generation (DG) systems. While DG has been used for decades by larger commercial customers like hospitals and universities, recent technology advances are providing cost savings for smaller customers. Restaurants, office buildings, schools, and other small- to medium-sized utility customers are cutting electric bills and improving power quality and reliability in locations from California to New York.

A new Web site, dgmarketplace.com, now makes it possible for any commercial utility customer (office, retail, school, hospital, etc.) in the U.S. to get immediate online analysis of potential electricity bill savings and other costs and benefits of a DG system. DG Marketplace™ provides the information needed to make informed decisions concerning a potential DG application.

Web visitors provide a few building site details and DG Marketplace applies its database of hourly loads, utility rate structures, and distributed generation technologies to determine energy bill savings. This new interactive software designs and evaluates DG systems optimized for each user's site characteristics.

DG evaluations can be conducted by going to www.dgmarketplace.com.

Jackson Associates, developer of DG Marketplace™, and MAISY ® Utility Customer and Hourly Load Databases (www.maisy.com ) has provided energy-related information, analysis products and consulting since 1982. Clients include DG manufacturers and suppliers, electric and gas utilities, energy service providers, ESCOS, research and government agencies and other energy-related organizations.