Choosing Retail Energy Suppliers: Supplier Reputation vs. Lowest Price
If you've signed up for the lowest energy rate in the past just to be burned by your retail energy supplier, this article is for you. As a professional energy brokerage firm with decades of energy market experience, we warn consumers against simply chasing the lowest price. Energy supplier reputation is just as important! Read on to learn more.
Calculating Business Energy Consumption
Many businesses are looking for ways to reduce energy costs and become more energy efficient. Starting with your business energy consumption is the best first step towards achieving your energy efficiency goals. This article outlines how to calculate energy usage and even comes with a business energy consumption calculator.
Backwardation & Contango: What They Are And How They Affect Energy Futures Contracts
Have you ever heard the trading terms backwardation or contango? The two terms are extremely important to understand, especially when you are managing energy costs for your business. This article outlines what you need to know and how to react to a backwarded market or market that is in contango.
How to Build An Effective Energy Strategy For Your Business
Do you have an energy plan in place for your business or organization? Energy is a large expense for most businesses and having an effective energy strategy is the first step towards reducing costs and improving operating capital. This article, written by our energy industry professionals, outlines the things to incorporate in your commercial energy plan.
Long Term vs. Short Term Energy Contracts: How To Choose
Energy contract term selection has never carried more financial weight than it does right now. Electricity prices across deregulated U.S. markets have risen sharply in recent years, driven by record-high capacity auction results, AI-fueled data center load growth, and tightening reserve margins in major grid regions like PJM and MISO. In this environment, the decision to lock in a long-term rate or stay short is a risk management decision with meaningful implications for your operating budget and long-term energy cost exposure.
Locking In Energy Rates: Should I Fix Or Float?
The decision to fix or float your energy rate is a risk management choice that defines your business's exposure to one of its largest and most volatile operating costs. Get it right and you secure price certainty at a favorable market entry point. Get it wrong and you are either locked into an above-market rate while index prices fall, or absorbing uncapped market volatility at exactly the wrong time.