Services
Energy Procurement – Electricity and Gas
The product flagship of GU is the optimization of electricity and gas procurement for the customer
Energy price minimization by the following measures:
1.Quantity recording / planning
2.Competition generation in the supplier portfolio
3.Quantity / time optimized procurement and supply
Risk minimization: Successive comparison of procurement strategies with customer specific procurement requirements in terms of quantity, time and budget, as well as changes of the market environment
Energy Input Analysis: GU offers for its customers an ISO 50001 conform presentation and description of the energy input and its development. The data can be used as a basis for the implementation of an ISO 50001 energy managemen tsystem.
Key arguments for the GU procurement consulting:
- Experience and success in energy consulting, since 1974
- Success guarantee: Payment based on realized cost savings. No additional costs arise.
- Superior consulting know how: Decision making and target price negotiations based on statistic models, fundamental analysis and experience
- The GU energy supplier portfolio: The since 1974 created network guarantees low prices by breadth of market utilization, efficient communication and trust
- Transparency and understandability (a.o. by the unique GU-Customer-Scorecard)
- No conflict of interest
- Customer oriented and flexible (Your partner for all questions around energy)
- International orientation: Multilingual consulting, intercultural competence
Schematically displayed the GU operates as an optimization element between the customer and energy supplier
Sustainable energy price minimization by
- Quantity recording / planning
- Competition generation in the supplier portfolio (a.o. price negotiations)
- Quantity / time optimized procurement and supply
- Successive comparison of procurement strategies
Successive procurement process (annual process for procurement years -3, -2, -1) for electricity and gas: periodically returning steps in the GU-procurement strategy
The analysis for the determination of the optimum procurement date and target price determination is based on a decision process that has three influential factors
The optimization of the energy procurement process by the GU specialists creates values that can be split into several categories
- Market logical cost reduction
•Creation and utilization of competition and breadth of the market for the procurement process
•Portfolio creation on the demand side for the utilization of economies of scale (Bulk-buying especially for funds and asset managers), +/- Quantity adaptation
•Successive optimization of the strategies according to the development of: network costs, tax, dues, CO2 - (Cost) Risk reduction
- Complexity reduction and efficiency improvement of procurement and management