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Boulder, CO – October 21, 2015 – Simple Energy, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company that uses behavioral science, big data analytics, and digital marketing to educate and empower consumers on energy consumption, and Consumers Energy, Michigan’s largest utility, today announced a collaboration that will integrate Simple Energy’s Marketplace platform into Consumers Energy’s existing energy efficiency program. The partnership is part of a year-long pilot program to increase customer satisfaction and empower customers to better understand their energy consumption to conserve energy and money.

The Consumers Energy Store will be available to 250,000 Kalamazoo residents in approximately 100,000 households. Through the store, customers with central air-conditioning will receive a $50 instant rebate and free shipping on select models of Wi-Fi enabled smart thermostats, including Nest, ecobee and Honeywell. The Consumers Energy Store will integrate with the utility’s existing loyalty and customer engagement solution, Smart Energy Challenge.

“People’s interest in saving energy at home is growing with the proliferation of connected home devices such as the smart thermostat,” said Yoav Lurie, CEO and co-founder of Simple Energy. “Our Marketplace solution provides utilities the opportunity to offer customers these devices at an affordable rate and with instant savings, as well as empower them to make energy-wise decisions.”

Consumers Energy chose Simple Energy’s Marketplace due to its ability to integrate with Consumers Energy’s existing energy efficiency program and align with its objectives of increasing its installed base for future demand response and peak pricing programs

ABOUT CONSUMERS ENERGY
Consumers Energy, Michigan’s largest utility, is the principal subsidiary of CMS Energy (NYSE:CMS), providing natural gas and electricity to 6.6 million of the state’s 10 million residents in all 68 Lower Peninsula counties.

ABOUT SIMPLE ENERGY
Simple Energy’s Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”) digital marketing platform uses behavioral science, big data analytics, and digital marketing techniques to change how people save energy and how utilities engage their customers. Located in Boulder, Colorado, with an office in London, Simple Energy is currently partnering with top tier utility customers across North America. Simple Energy is making energy efficiency fun, social, and rewarding. For more information visit www.simpleenergy.ricaweb.com and follow https://twitter.com/SimpleEnergy on Twitter.

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