PROCUREMENT
“I need expert energy procurement help”
Procurement
We are often called upon to provide energy procurement support, expertise and guidance. We’re engaged to help solve what are often complex problems and often under significant time pressure.
The Challenges
ENERGY IS A TECHNICAL AREA
Many areas of energy require specific expertise and experience to successfully deal with – something many companies lack in-house
SUPPLIERS KNOW MORE THAN YOU DO
There’s a significant imbalance between the knowledge suppliers have and your internal teams – something suppliers are expert at exploiting
MISTAKES CAN BE HUGELY COSTLY
Energy is one of the biggest cost areas of every business. Making the wrong decisions can have implications that last for years. It’s not uncommon for the scale of avoidable costs to run into the millions
Key Activities
PROCUREMENT
We frequently help with general procurement activities, such as market analysis, sourcing, tendering, negotiating, contracting, and so on
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Occasionally clients get themselves into difficult situations with suppliers. If it occurs, we’ll ‘sit on the same side of the table’ as you and help you to negotiate your way through what are often complex situations.
STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
The right long term aims and plans are essential for long term success. We help clients to develop their energy strategy. And we help develop the category strategy to deliver the long-term energy ambitions.
ENERGY PERFORMANCE CONTRACTS
Energy Performance Contracts (EPCs) can work well. But they can go disastrously wrong. They have to be set-up correctly from the outset. We’ll help you to avoid the expensive errors others have made and ensure the bulk of the benefit goes to you.
PRIVATE WIRES & PPAs
‘Behind the meter’ generation solutions require analysis of risks (such as price, credit and imbalance) and an understanding of the payoffs between Opex and Capex.
BUYING GREEN ENERGY
Some green certificates are more equal than others. We shine a light on what you’re buying, from where and benchmark this against the market and the drivers of future costs.
BENEFITS
- Our decades of procurement experience will fast track you to the right answer, and avoid mistakes others have made.
- We know what suppliers want and facilitate their engagement and interaction.
- We’ll rapidly uncover the best options for you and help you to get to the optimal outcome.
- You can benefit from the fact that we frequently write tender documents, supply agreements, power purchase agreements (PPAs), etc.
- We’ll remove the cloak of complexity from how energy suppliers work.
- We'll help you to shift the knowledge balance of power in your favour.
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