Our top priority in working with you is to make your business more successful by aligning your energy plan with your business.

You may use energy to heat and cool your buildings and operate lighting and standard office equipment.  You may have energy-intensive commercial or industrial machinery.  You may have amenities like restaurants, large laundry facilities, cold storage areas, swimming pools, athletic or recreational equipment, and any number of other functions that can guzzle natural gas and electricity.

Whether you book it as an expense, a component of your Costs of Goods Sold, or a little of both, energy is an essential cost that we’re here to help you manage.

Energy plans are meant to be dynamic, not static.  As your business evolves, your energy plans should be adjusted to match.

We can help with all of that.  And the more information we have about your business, the better outcomes we can deliver.

Think about what has changed in your business in the past three years, and what you’re anticipating in the next three.  In what ways might ongoing changes in your business affect future energy usage?  What changes are you planning or considering to your facilities, operations, and equipment?  How are your budgetary goals evolving?

Which of these common examples sound familiar?

• Your business has outgrown your space and sprawled to other buildings, and you’re looking for a larger and more suitable site.
• You’re opening a new store or office.
• You’ve modified your production schedules.
• You’ve made energy-efficient upgrades to your HVAC system, lighting, equipment, or building envelope.
• Your team spends more time working remotely, and you’ve down-sized your physical footprint to fit.
• You’ve acquired another business and are consolidating operations among all your facilities.
• Your company manages a group of businesses or properties that can change dynamically as you exit old investments and enter new ones.
• You’re finally selling off that building you seldom use.
• You’re an energy-intensive business considering expansion into a geographical area with different utility providers.
• You’re constructing a brand-new facility on your campus.
• You’re adding equipment with an energy usage profile that’s materially different than your current profile, such as a space heat gas user adding gas-fired equipment.
• You’re ramping up operations in a facility where usage was previously too low to be served in the same energy program as your larger facilities.

Do any of these sound like you?

These are among the common transitions we see businesses go through all the time.  Any one of these can impact energy usage patterns in various ways.

They can open up new opportunities and better economies of scale.  There may be ways to reduce costs by adjusting your utility distribution rates as well as your supply program.  Some utilities allow aggregation of accounts with lower charges if they’re physically contiguous.  Your new usage profile might suggest a transition from Gas Choice to Transportation Gas, or vice versa.

And if your energy plan isn’t adjusted to fit, these changes could result in needlessly higher costs.  Your usage may cross over the break-even level between rate classes.  Balancing a Transportation Gas account might get easier or more challenging with your new load profile.

Changes of this nature may seem complex and unpredictable.  Our goal is to make it simple.

While we make it a point to ask questions to keep up-to-date with your business, it can be easy to underestimate the impact of a change that may seem relatively minor.  So please let us know your plans.  Update us on recent changes.  And send us copies of your utility bills for any meters undergoing transitions, however large or small.  Your bills can contain valuable data that we wouldn’t ordinarily receive directly from the utility.

With that information, we’ll be armed to analyze the effect on energy and better advise you about aligning your energy plan with your future business needs.