Energy cost management: Results
Energy cost management: Results We aren’t very good at highlighting our successes. We are usually satisfied when a customer is happy and has achieved their goals. But every now and then a customer’s results are so striking that we feel we have to share their story. Background But first, before we tell their story, a few […]
Energy cost management news: Hurricane Impacts on Electricity and Gas Prices
Energy cost management news: Hurricane Impacts on Electricity and Gas Prices Just last week, a customer asked why it was that power and natural gas prices did not experience the kind of disruption from Hurricane Harvey that we have seen after other major storms, like Hurricane Katrina, for example. There are a number of good […]
Another Case of “Too Much is No Good” – Guest Post
Another Case of “Too Much is No Good” – Guest Post Guest post by Michael Fanelli More and more, it seems consumers are concerned about the availability and accessibility of power sources, especially for the various devices that have come to power our lives. Where is the nearest outlet? Should I charge my phone before […]
Greentech Media’s 4 Trends Reshaping the Power Sector + What they mean for customers
Greentech Media’s 4 Trends Reshaping the Power Sector + What they mean for customers Greentech Media reports on the 4 Trends Reshaping the Power Sector in their newsletter published yesterday. Greentech Media makes the case that: The power sector is constantly evolving, but rarely — if ever — has it experienced the rapid pace of […]
MWh Internship program launches
MWh Internship program launches Meet the MWh Intern Meet Michael, a soon to be first year student at the University of Michigan and a recent graduate of Regis High School in NY, NY. Michael helped launch The MWh internship program concentrating his talents on Product Development, and Research, while contributing to the introduction of The […]
Market Update: Day Ahead and Forward Pricing
Market Update: Day Ahead and Forward Pricing Energy prices determine as much as 40-60% of the price you pay for electricity. No matter whether your business strategy is to fix all of your costs or maintain some exposure to index prices (day-ahead, usually), knowing historical and forecasted pricing should be important to you. The only […]
Energy cost management: Navigating complexity
Energy cost management: Navigating complexity “Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.”― Edsger W. Dijkstra We are taking a break today from the series on understanding retail supplier pricing to discuss an increasing trend in the energy […]
Energy cost management: Supplier differences – contract terms
Energy cost management: Supplier differences – contract terms Energy cost management: How different can supplier contracts be? What can those differences cost my business? This is the third article in a series in which we discuss how to evaluate the major differences between suppliers when you make an energy purchase. It is noteworthy that we have […]
Top 10 energy cost management questions: Why you should care about supplier creditworthiness
Top 10 energy cost management questions: Why you should care about supplier creditworthiness As we just posted last week in an article titled Fact or Fiction: There is no difference between suppliers, there can be significant differences between suppliers that will result in meaningful price differences when you get quotes from various suppliers. There can […]
Fact or Fiction: There is no difference between supplier prices
Fact or Fiction: There is no difference between supplier prices All electricity supply prices are the same, right? All suppliers serving a given region should price the same way, get their wholesale power the same way and will give me basically the same price, correct? The only difference I should see, as a buyer, is […]