Information & Energy Services, Inc. As the Deregulation and Re-Regulation process is played out across the nation the need for making educated decisions becomes more vital than ever before. The knowledge necessary for being an informed decision maker is much greater with the information being much more complicated. The need to develop a comprehensive energy management strategy in this new environment is crucial for any commercial or industrial property. As the option of purchasing energy from new and different suppliers becomes available or taken away depending on the property's location, additional options for the customer will become available such as the option of using new distributed power technologies to produce their own power at costs below their present supplier. When combined with advances in energy management such as smart building control systems, HVAC and lighting efficiency improvements, innovative energy financing agreements will provide an energy manager with an increasing array of tools to manage energy costs and reduce overall expenditures. The challenge to manage a facility in this increasingly complex environment is made easier by a number of technological advances that facilitate low-cost remote collection and analysis of the critical energy data and other vital information that is needed to facilitate the decision making process. The continual integration of new energy information technology with customer support second to none by Information & Energy Services provides the means for customers to enter into energy programs that generate true cost savings that would otherwise have been avoided due to the level of complexity and lack of understanding.