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Mike Gordon, founder and president of ConsumerPowerline selected as an Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the YearCountry's Leading Strategic Energy Asset Management Firm Recognized for Helping Large Commercial and Residential Property Owners Manage Energy Usage and Make Money Doing It.
NEW YORK, June 29, 2006 - Mike Gordon, founder and president of ConsumerPowerline, an energy asset management firm that helps energy users strategically reduce their consumption while generating millions in new-found revenue for its larger consumer clients, has won the 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the YearŽ Award for the New York Metro Region's emerging business category.
The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year awards program celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year and continues to recognize the leaders and visionaries who are creating and building world-class businesses. Awards are given to entrepreneurs who have demonstrated excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. Previous Entrepreneur Of The Year winners include individuals who have built some of business's most recognizable names: Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com, Pierre Omidyar of eBay, Inc., Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Inc., Howard Schultz of Starbucks Corp., Catherine L. Hughes and Alfred Liggins of Radio One, and Jim McCann of 1-800-Flowers.com.
"It's very gratifying to be mentioned in the company of such innovative business leaders, who through their vision and commitment have created not just new markets, but empowering opportunities for consumers," said Mr. Gordon. "Ernst & Young's recognition of ConsumerPowerline reinforces our vision that by transferring power from energy providers to large energy users-helping companies reduce and strategically manage their energy consumption-we not only generate millions in new revenue for our clients, but also create a paradigm shift in the local and regional energy markets. By creating more equity, efficiency and value for the energy consumer, we also hope to contribute toward a more sound energy future."
ConsumerPowerline works in New York, California and throughout New England with some of the nation's leading commercial, residential and industrial property owners including Starwood Hotels, Macy's, CB Richard Ellis and the state of Massachusetts to manage their participation in the local electricity markets, and has helped its clients turn their energy consumption into a recurring revenue source. ConsumerPowerline offers its clients a broad array of services, including: tax savings; energy curtailment; engineering; demand response; and, steam monitoring and management.
About ConsumerPowerline
ConsumerPowerline (www.consumerpowerline.com) is full service strategic energy asset management firm with a proven track record of helping its clients, large energy users, uncover hidden market revenues and cost savings opportunities available with their real estate assets. Currently, CPLN is the largest non-utility provider of demand response services in the U.S.
ConsumerPowerline enables its clients to make intelligent choices about the selection, sequencing and timing of capturing revenue and cost saving opportunities through a comprehensive energy management strategy that balances financial opportunities with operational requirements and tenant needs CPLN offers its clients a broad array of services, including tax credit optimization, energy curtailment, engineering demand response, and steam monitoring and management.
ConsumerPowerline's client list features notable public and private firms including: CB Richard Ellis, Morgan Stanley, Macy's, Starwood Hotels, Hines Property Management, Forest City Ratner Corporation, Co-op City, Macklowe Properties, RFR Realty, New York Presbyterian Hospital, NYU Medical Center, Newmark Properties, Douglas Elliman Property Management, Cooper Square Realty, Wentworth Management, Praxair, Inc., United States General Services Administration and dozens of other substantial end-users of energy.