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Expense Reduction Experts will work closely
with your management team to understand
your business operation and energy needs
with the following activities:
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Collecting metered usage information. |
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Analyzing and
evaluating existing gas, gas service
and utility contracts. |
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Pre-qualifying
competitive suppliers and identifying
alternative tariff rates. |
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Designing innovative,
time-sensitive pricing mechanisms
for both gas and electric. |
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Negotiating
with suppliers to set up price cap
and market watch services. |
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Packaging bid
solicitations in the most suitable
format. |
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Aggregating
loads into "Buying Groups"
for market leverage. |
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Calculating
cost advantages gained from procurement
strategy vs. default alternatives. |
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Bill
Auditing |
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Be
it clerical error, equipment failure, weather
problems, or the sheer volume of data handled,
both utilities and suppliers experience
a relatively high frequency of billing errors.
And, billing formats are becoming increasingly
complex and harder to reconcile. Expense
Reduction Experts bill auditing services
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Verifying that the most cost-efficient
rates and rate options have been applied. |
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Identifying
billing errors and obtaining refunds. |
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Ensuring that
all applicable federal, state and
local taxes are properly imposed. |
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Energy
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Utilizing
the energy profile developed for your facilities
and the detailed cost analysis described
above, Expense Reduction Experts will evaluate
long-term cost reduction strategies using
energy management techniques that can be
implemented at your facilities. This scope
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Utilizing new metering technologies
to improve purchasing position. |
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Implementing
load management that responds to changing
energy market conditions. |
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Evaluating multi-meter
consolidation schemes. |
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Investigating
direct gas service connection to high-pressure
transmission systems. |
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Assessing energy
management systems and demand management
controls. |
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Verifying results
of procurement and energy management
measures over time. |
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Market
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The
retail and wholesale electricity markets
are the most intricate commodity environments
in the world. Not surprisingly there are
many alternate pricing mechanisms that can
be employed in an energy contract. "How"
your information is presented to electric
suppliers is as vital to obtaining the best
possible energy prices as knowing "when"
to lock-in on a supply contract.
Knowledge of what drives an energy supplier's
cost dramatically improves your negotiating
position. Having this leverage is particularly
important since the number of qualified
competitive suppliers is limited. Our professional
energy consultants can analyze your facility's
specific energy profile in the context of
existing and anticipated market conditions
and identify a target price to use as a
basis for negotiations with suppliers.
When implementation of all approved recommendations
is complete, Expense Reduction Experts will
monitor your bills for accuracy - providing
periodic reports to verify savings going
forward. Partnering with ERE will maximize
your long-term savings and minimize the
burden on internal resources.
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