SCANA Corp. and Enermetrix.com have jointly announced SCANAOnline Energy, a gas and electricity auction marketplace designedfor use by business and industrial customers.

SCANA Online Energy allows customers to post their energy needs,including terms and conditions, online at www.scanaonline.com.Pre-qualified suppliers electronically enter bids to supply anddeliver the energy at the best market price. The best bid iselectronically accepted in a real-time transaction. By eliminatingthe costly and time-consuming RFP process, customers realizesavings immediately while able to actively monitor the auctionprocess online.

Enermetrix.com, based in Maynard, MA, began operation in 1996 asNorth American Power Brokers, Inc. to deliver solutions to thederegulating energy industry. The company’s Internet commercesystem allows energy consumers, energy suppliers and energy servicecompanies (ESCOs) to share information, execute transactions andgenerate reports via the Web.

“We chose to partner with Enermetrix.com because of their stateof the art e-commerce platform. We will be able to provide ourcustomers with a way to gain a competitive advantage while savingmoney at the same time,” said Kris Aebersold, SCANA’s vicepresident of marketing. An independent evaluation of a trialimplementation of the Enermetrix.com platform indicated annual costsavings averaging 19%.

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