As part of our continuing campaign to assist our fellow laundry owners in reducing their utility costs, SoCAL CLA has assembled a tremendous lunch-and-learn daytime program for our first affiliate seminar of 2013. Our keynote speaker is Mr. Jeff Deal, President of Hamilton Engineering in Michigan. Jeff is widely considered one of the nation's experts on water heating, and he will present a complete seminar on heater options available today, including tankless, condensing, combustion, ozone and other high-efficiency choices. He will offer formulas for determining your capacity needs and for measuring your energy output and efficiency. Also speaking will be Mr. Chris Ward, Vice President of PRo Energy Group of Houston. Chris will inform on the ins and outs of purchasing natural gas on the deregulated commodity market. You will leave the seminar with the information you need to decide if this is an option for you. Together these two presenters will provide you with your options to lower your natural gas consumption on one hand, and lower your acquisition prices on the other, and they will both stay for the Interactive Q&A Panel after their talks to answer all attendees' questions.