COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL

Anyone can go out into the electricity market and seek contract offers. However only experienced specialists who have a comprehensive knowledge of the energy industry are equipped to fully analyse and understand how to achieve the optimum results. This is what we provide with our Best Practice Energy Procurement service.

As the Energy Industry increases in complexity and continues to change with new rules, regulations and tariffs being rolled out year after year; it has become almost impossible for any business owner or manager not associated with the energy industry to stay up to date.

We search, negotiate, manage and provide you with expert knowledge and solutions which are tailored to benefit the needs of your business.

We remove the stress and risk from finding the best electricity deal available for your business and assist in finding savings as well as in avoiding common costly mistakes that can add significantly and unnecessarily to the total cost of bills.

Unlike simple residential contracts, commercial electricity contracts are a minefield of complexities. With our Best Practice Energy Procurement, our skilled professionals will sidestep potentially disastrous choices which could cost tens of thousands of dollars or even threaten the viability of your business.

It is a very common misconception that the energy price is regarded as the central issue in saving money on bills, yet in the business energy market, acquiring competitive electricity prices is only part of the equation in reducing costs.

The other part of the equation is ongoing monitoring and management of the energy usage during the term of an energy contract.  The ongoing monitoring and management is provided through our Energy Cost Management services which reduce business energy risk and maximizes opportunities for your business.

While it is possible to try to keep an eye on your electricity accounts yourself, would you really be able to identify if network increases in your bill have been applied correctly by the retailer, or if your growing electricity usage has tipped a point that means it is time to assess the viability of a more suitable demand tariff?  These examples are just the tip of the iceberg in regards to what we see when we regularly check your bills as part of our Energy Cost Management services.

Additionally, to stay ahead of the game, we avidly keep up to date with all changes and legislative requirements in the constantly evolving energy sector, so that our managed clients always benefit from the latest information insights and first mover advantage.

Our Best Practice Energy Procurement process sources cost effective electricity prices with energy contract terms suitable to the energy usage patterns of your business to deliver long term savings.

It involves defining your current site requirements by sorting, collating and analyzing detailed usage data for the last 12 months, preparing and presenting the site load profile to capable energy retailers to seek offers, evaluating offers and terms from energy retailers, negotiating favorable terms which minimize penalties or optimize discounts based on the characteristics of the individual energy account, calculating cost comparisons for each individual site, presenting and explaining the offers to your business, organizing and lodging offer acceptance paperwork, followed by validating the first bill of the new energy contract to ensure it complies with the original offer.

Throughout the year we periodically examine the daily usage and demand levels of the electricity that your business used in order to identify any abnormalities or spikes so that prompt action can be taken if corrective measures are required to reduce costs.

A comprehensive evaluation is also undertaken annually and if the site’s usage pattern changes, to review the monthly usage and demand levels, assess the maximum demand and analyze the annual network tariff, to evaluate whether adjustments may be made to reap additional savings.

Furthermore, our proactive Energy Management service means that we are constantly scanning the energy market for dips in pricing, so we can enable your business to take advantage of these opportunities to save by sourcing future energy contract offers for your business that lock in low prices when market conditions are favorable.

During 15 years experience in the utilities sector since the deregulation of the electricity and gas markets in Australia, we have delivered successful results to hundreds of clients in a diverse array of businesses and industries such as:

Agricultural & Livestock Farms

Bakeries & Patisseries

Bottle Shops

Butchers & Delis

Cold Storage Facilities

Commercial Offices

Data Security Centres

Dry Cleaners & Laundromats

Factories & Manufacturing

High Rise Buildings & Common Areas

Hotels, Motels & Caravan Parks

Medical Centres

Nursing Homes

Pharmacies

Restaurants & Catering

Retirement Villages

Shopping Centres

Supermarkets

Warehouses

Wineries

Utility Companies

We are confident we can assist your business as well and would welcome the opportunity to discuss your requirements in more detail.

Over the past few years, there have been problems in the energy world with unscrupulous operators putting their own interests ahead of their clients. Energy Genie has a solid reputation in the energy industry, so you can look forward to receiving the highest standards of personal and professional ethics.

We are a family run business built over the last 15 years on word of mouth referrals based on quality, value and transparency. Our independent service means you can rely on our expertise and for us to take care of all your needs by handling all aspects of your Energy Procurement and Energy Cost Management.

The Co-op approached Energy Genie who did an obligation free appraisal of the Co-op’s supermarket electricity bill to identify any potential avenues for saving money, followed by a network tariff analysis to measure and implement the savings.

The result was an extraordinary saving of around $25,000 over the last year.

Energy Genie was originally recommended to Charlie by another south west Victoria business whilst Charlie was attending a regional executive forum. This aquafarming business has been a customer of Energy Genie since 2008, and has been very happy with the benefits of their comprehensive energy consulting services. Energy Genie has consistently procured suitable contracts for them while providing ongoing monitoring services, keeping their electricity costs low in the face of industry changes that affect the price of energy.

Energy Genie did an obligation free appraisal of the Co-op’s supermarket electricity bill. “Stephen found that our rates were a touch on the high side but it was not worth breaking our existing contract for,” said Charlie. “However, we were paying a premium fee to our existing energy consultant for their energy services, yet they had failed to identify that we could make huge savings on our electricity bill through a network tariff analysis.”

The Co-op engaged Energy Genie to do this network tariff analysis, and as a result, identified a tariff that was more suitable and cost-effective for the Co-op’s energy needs. This resulted in immediate savings of around $25,000 over 12 months. Energy Genie implemented this network tariff change on the Co-op’s behalf, creating an end to end solution by saving the Co-op board the stress of trying to make the change themselves.

As part of Energy Genie’s service, Stephen also identified that the bill could be further reduced if electricity prices dipped, so he kept track of prices on behalf of the Co-op as part of his ongoing energy management and monitoring services. After several months, he helped the Co-op secure a contract with lower rates that would automatically begin as soon as the current contract expired. This provided the Co-op with long term stability for the cost of electricity bills.

The Co-op continues to use Energy Genie as a consulting service. Energy Genie’s most recent involvement was to assist the Co-op during the assessment process of investigating the viability of installing energy saving light globes.