Commercial energy brokerage, Buffalo, New York

Your energy contract, shopped properly.

Most commercial accounts sitting on utility default supply are paying more than a competitively shopped contract would cost them. Send us your most recent bill and we will tell you whether yours is one of them. A person on our pricing desk checks every reading off it, then your load goes out to suppliers who bid without being told who you are. You choose, and nothing is signed on your behalf.

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No pricing is shown to anyone before you authorise us and a compliance check clears. Your permission lasts at most six months, covers nothing but this, and you can withdraw it yourself at any time.

Orientation

What you are actually choosing between

If no one has ever walked you through deregulation, this is the whole of it.

Your utility's default supply

Your utility delivers the energy either way, and the delivery part of your bill is not in play. What is in play is the supply part. Leave it alone and your utility buys supply on your behalf and passes the market through to you as it moves.

A contract with a supplier

Take a contract instead and a licensed supplier holds a price for a fixed term, so the supply part of your bill stops moving with the market for as long as the term runs.

Which of those two costs you less depends on the market, on the shape of your usage and on the term you take, and it moves. We will tell you which one wins for you, once your usage is in front of us and the offers are back.

The money question

Two ways you could be paying too much

Against your utility

Default supply moves with the wholesale market and nobody shops it on your behalf. A contract shopped across licensed suppliers can come in lower, and when it does, the difference lands on the supply line of every bill for the length of the term.

Against your current supplier

Your existing contract was priced on the market of the day you signed it, and on whatever that supplier already knew about you. Re-shopping it blind, well before it ends, is how you find out whether it is still competitive.

What the difference is worth on your bill depends on your usage and on the day the market is read. We put a figure in front of you once your offers are back.

Before anything is priced

What protects you

Three things hold whether or not you like the offers you get back.

Process

A person checks every reading.

Nothing goes to market on a machine's word. Every figure taken off your bill, the meter, the account number, your current supplier and the date your contract ends, is put in front of a person on our pricing desk and accepted by them before your load goes anywhere. If something does not look right, we come back to you before we act on it.

Protection

Suppliers bid without knowing who you are.

Your usage goes out as a profile, not as a name. Suppliers price the load in front of them, so nobody prices you on your history with them, on who your landlord is, or on how soon your contract runs out. Your identity is released to one supplier only, after you have picked an offer.

Reversibility

Your permission is short, and you can withdraw it.

The authorisation you sign lets us request your usage from your utility and collect offers on it. That is all it lets us do. It expires after six months at the latest, it covers only the accounts you pick, and you can end it earlier yourself from your own screen. We do not sell your usage data.

Start to finish

How it works

First

Send your latest bill.

Upload it, or type your account details in if you cannot find it right now. One bill per account is enough to begin.
Then

The desk checks it by hand.

We confirm the meter, the account, your supplier and your contract end date. You hear from us if anything needs a question asked.
After that

Suppliers bid blind.

Your profile goes to the suppliers licensed to serve your utility. They bid on the load without your name attached to it.
Finally

You decide, in writing.

Offers come back to you on matching terms so they can be read against each other. You pick one, or you pick none. We do not sign for you, and nothing binds until the supplier accepts in return.

Compared with doing it yourself

Far less work than the way this usually goes.

Shopping a contract the usual way means running the same conversation over and over, and then finishing it under a deadline you did not choose. This is the same job done once.

The usual way

You call suppliers one at a time, or a broker emails them on your behalf and forwards back whatever arrives.
Each one asks for your bill again, and each one knows exactly who you are before it quotes.
Offers come back on different terms, different start dates and different lengths, so there is nothing you can lay side by side.
Your contract end date arrives before the comparison is finished, and you renew where you already are because there is no time left to do anything else.

Through us

You send one bill, once, and authorise us to ask your utility for the rest.
Suppliers receive a usage profile with no name on it, so no one is quoting your loyalty or your deadline.
Bids come back on matched terms, which means the comparison is already done when you open it.
You read the offers in one sitting and decide, or decide against all of them.

The work that used to be yours is the work we do. What is left for you is the decision.

Wherever the market is open, we can shop it.

We broker in the deregulated markets, not only in New York. Meters in different states can go out in the same pass.

Fit

Who this is for

Commercial and industrial accounts: offices, plants, warehouses, multi site retail, schools and municipal buildings in states where the energy market is deregulated. If you hold meters in more than one utility territory, or in more than one state, they can be shopped together.