Dominion Virginia Power and CheckFree Team Up to Save Customers Money and Support Project Plant It!
RICHMOND, Va. – Dominion Virginia Power customers who
sign up for eBill at www.dom.com will not only
save time and money but also help teach students hands-on lessons about environmental
stewardship.
For every Dominion Virginia Power customer who enrolls in
the electronic billing and payment program from Sept. 1, 2008, through Oct.
31, 2008, CheckFree will contribute $1 to Dominion’s Project Plant
It! program, a community effort to educate children, plant trees and
improve the environment.
"This partnership benefits Dominion customers, Virginia
students and the environment by providing a convenient, economic method for
paying bills that does not require paper, postage or the harvesting of trees,"
said William C. Hall Jr., vice president - Corporate Communications & Community
Affairs.
More than 375,000 Dominion Virginia Power customers currently
pay their bills electronically through the electronic billing and payment services
of CheckFree, now part of Fiserv Inc. According to a Javelin Strategy and Research
study, if all U.S. households viewed and paid bills online they could save 16.5
million trees each year.
“E-bills help reduce clutter, save time and provide
an easy way for all of us to make a difference in improving the environment,”
said Michelle Flint, vice president and group executive, Fiserv Internet Banking
and Electronic Payments Group. “We are proud to participate with Dominion
Virginia Power on the Project Plant It! program to help educate children about
ways they can help preserve the environment.”
Fiserv delivers electronic bills (e-bills) online for more
than 400 companies in 29 countries, representing thousands of consumer brands
and most of the bills common to a U.S. household. E-bills are electronic representations
of paper bills that are securely delivered to a business or financial institution
Web site.
Project Plant It! is a partnership among
Dominion, the Arbor Day Foundation and selected local school districts in areas
where the company does business. Nearly 20,000 elementary school students this
year in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Virginia have learned about
the value of trees in our ecosystem and how to recognize and care for trees.
Each student participating in the program receives a tree seedling to plant
on Arbor Day on April 24, 2009. For more information, visit www.ProjectPlantIt.com.
Dominion is one of the nation's largest producers of energy,
with a portfolio of approximately 27,000 megawatts of generation. Dominion serves
retail energy customers in 11 states. For more information about Dominion, visit
the company's Web site at http://www.dom.com.
For more information about how to get started with e-bills
and online bill payment, visit www.eBILLPLACE.com,
sponsored by Fiserv.
